Problem with urllib.urlopen()

[Christopher]

There were some problem with posting the whole link so I'll break each
one up...

1st Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=PureSearch&db=PubMed&details_term=%28%28%28%22organization%20and%
20administration%22%5BMeSH%20Subheading%5D%20OR%20organ%5BText%20Word%5D%29%
20AND%20%28%22diabetes%20mellitus%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20diabetes%5BText%
20Word%5D%29%29%20AND%20%28%28%22glucagon%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20glucagon%
5BText%20Word%5D%29%20AND%20%28%22insulin%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20insulin%
5BText%20Word%5D%29%29%29


2nd Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Display&db=PubMed&details_term=%28%28%28%22organization%20and%
20administration%22%5BMeSH%20Subheading%5D%20OR%20organ%5BText%20Word%5D%29%
20AND%20%28%22diabetes%20mellitus%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20diabetes%5BText%
20Word%5D%29%29%20AND%20%28%28%22glucagon%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20glucagon%
5BText%20Word%5D%29%20AND%20%28%22insulin%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20insulin%
5BText%20Word%5D%29%29%29&dopt=XML&query_key=1

Sorry about that.

Chris

chris_mk at hotmail.com (Christopher) wrote in message news:<cc14131d.0206031445.5154de31 at posting.google.com>...
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having a bit of a problem and I'm not sure what I should do.  I've
> tried a couple of things and I'm running out of ideas.
> 
> Basically, I want to be able to access, directly, the XML versions of
> the NCBI results of a search.  There is a default display of 'Summary'
> and then there are numberous other displays, one of which is 'XML' You
> can view the following link in XML (sort of) merely by changing the
> display option (that was just some backgroud info, nothing spectacular
> that really matters).
>  Here is a link to an example page (do a search, then click details,
> then the URL button and PubMed gives the actual url it uses (otherwise
> it is just a cgi url; got that from O'Reilly's "Developing
> Bioinformatics Computer Skills": 
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=PubMed&details_term=%28%28%28%22organization%20and%20administration%22%5BMeSH%20Subheading%5D%20OR%20organ%5BText%20Word%5D%29%20AND%20%28%22diabetes%20mellitus%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20diabetes%5BText%20Word%5D%29%29%20AND%20%28%28%22glucagon%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20glucagon%5BText%20Word%5D%29%20AND%20%28%22insulin%22%5BMeS
%
> 0Terms%5D%20OR%20insulin%5BText%20Word%5D%29%29%29
> 
> 
> Now, try this url in your webbrowser and see what you get (you should
> see the actual xml version of the page above):
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Display&db=PubMed&details_term=%28%28%28%22organization%20and%20administration%22%5BMeSH%20Subheading%5D%20OR%20organ%5BText%20Word%5D%29%20AND%20%28%22diabetes%20mellitus%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20diabetes%5BText%20Word%5D%29%29%20AND%20%28%28%22glucagon%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20glucagon%5BText%20Word%5D%29%20AND%20%28%22insulin%22%5BMeSH%2
T
> rms%5D%20OR%20insulin%5BText%20Word%5D%29%29%29&dopt=XML&query_key=1
> 
> You should, like I said, get the XML version of the original links
> (with some extra information, which is why I want to interface with
> the XML site, btw).  Now, if you do an interface with Python instead
> of your browser you get a response of an error page instead.  Why is
> that and what can I do to change it?  If you have any information, I
> would appreciate it ver much.  Thanks.
> 
> Chris