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> Would this not keep requesting/submitting additional (duplicate) BLAST
> queries?
>>
>>  try:
>>             this_result = get_BLAST(id)
>>             result_dict[id] = True
>

I assumed that
NCBIWWW.qblast
waits for a response from the server.

Are you saying that instead it queues a request, and the
NCBIXML.read(blast_result)

command fetches the result?

>
> That said after some more research I found this tread.
> http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython/2013-April/008507.html

I read that post to say that you will be submitting one request for a
lot of data points that you will then need to parse, is that true?