code: def BLASTresults(rid, format_type="Tabular", \
                   hitlist_size= None, alignments=None, \
                   ncbi_gi = None, format_object=None,\
                   baseURL="http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov"):
      
  
      URL=baseURL+"/Blast.cgi?"
      URL=URL+"RID="+str(rid)+"&FORMAT_TYPE="+str(format_type)
      for o in [ hitlist_size, alignments,\
                ncbi_gi, format_object]:
          if o:
              URL=URL+"&"+ variablename(var) +"="+str(o)
      URL=URL+"&CMD=Get"
      response=requests.get(url = URL)
      response=response.content
  
      if format_type=="Tabular":
          result=response.split("\n")
          result=[ s.split("\t") for s in result][6:]
          header=result[:7]
          content=result[7:]
          fields=header[5][0].strip("# Fields: ").split(", ")
          result=pd.DataFrame(content,columns=fields)
          response=result[:int(header[-1][0].split(" ")[1])]
  
      return response
docs: Retrieves results for an RID.
  
      :param rid: BLAST search request identifier. Allowed values: The Request ID (RID) returned when the search was submitted
      :param format_type: Report type. Allowed values: HTML, Text, XML, XML2, JSON2, or Tabular. Tabular is the default.
      :param hitlist_size: Number of databases sequences to keep. Allowed values: Integer greater than zero.
      :param alignments: Number of alignments to print (applies to HTML and Text). Allowed values: Integer greater than zero.
      :param ncbi_gi: Show NCBI GIs in report. Allowed values: T or F.
      :param format_object: Object type. Allowed values: SearchInfo (status check) or Alignment (report formatting).
      :param baseURL: server url. Default=http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  
      :returns: the result of a BLAST query. If format_type="Tabular" it will parse the content into a Pandas dataframe.