Package Bio :: Package Medline
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Package Medline

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This module provides code to work with Medline.

Classes: Record A dictionary holding Medline data.

Functions: read Reads one Medline record parse Allows you to iterate over a bunch of Medline records

Deprecated classes: Iterator Iterates over a file containing Medline records. RecordParser Parses a Medline record into a Record object.

_Scanner Scans a Medline record. _RecordConsumer Consumes Medline data to a Record object.

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  Record
A dictionary holding information from a Medline record.
  Iterator
Returns one record at a time from a file of Medline records.
  RecordParser
Parses Medline data into a Record object.
  _Scanner
Scans a Medline record.
  _RecordConsumer
Consumer that converts a Medline record to a Record object.
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parse(handle)
Read Medline records one by one from the handle.
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read(handle)
Read a single Medline records from the handle.
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  StringTypes = (<type 'str'>, <type 'unicode'>)
  xml_support = 1
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parse(handle)

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Read Medline records one by one from the handle.

The handle is either is a Medline file, a file-like object, or a list
of lines describing one or more Medline records.

Typical usage:

    from Bio import Medline
    handle = open("mymedlinefile")
    records = Medline.parse(handle)
    for record in record:
        print record['TI']

read(handle)

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Read a single Medline records from the handle.

The handle is either is a Medline file, a file-like object, or a list
of lines describing a Medline record.

Typical usage:

    from Bio import Medline
    handle = open("mymedlinefile")
    record = Medline.read(handle)
    print record['TI']