[referencer] about pubmed plugin

John Spray jcspray at icculus.org
Mon Mar 24 11:48:00 EDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:11 +0100, Aurélien Naldi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some scratching itches with the pubmed plugin:
> 
> * it does not fill the doi field
> * it gets only the initials and not the full given name

Committed your patch, with a little bit of extra error checking.

> * it does not work with doi directly (as it used to)

Still works for me.  I'm testing with 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm547.

On this subject, but a little different is bug 202476:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/referencer/+bug/202476

> referencer_download: got 744 characters
> DOI  10.1074/jbc.M608848200  has PubMed ID  17028180
> http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?tool=Referencer&retmode=xml&db=pubmed&email=referencer%40icculus.org&id=17028180
> pubmed.py:resolve_metadata: Got no metadata
> >> referencer_document_dealloc

Looks like there's an exception coming from get_citation_from_pmid,
eaten in resolve_metadata.  Suggest you try moving the call outside the
"try/except" to see the exception printed.

John




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