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<h1 class="epydoc">Class Dictionary</h1><p class="nomargin-top"><span class="codelink"><a href="Bio.PubMed-pysrc.html#Dictionary">source code</a></span></p>
<p>Access PubMed using a read-only dictionary interface.</p>
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Create a new Dictionary to access PubMed.</td>
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<p>Create a new Dictionary to access PubMed. parser is an optional
parser (e.g. Medline.RecordParser) object to change the results into
another form. If set to None, then the raw contents of the file will be
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<p>Return the Medline entry. id is either the Medline Unique ID or the
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