--- a/sra_fetch.py	Sun Nov 18 17:12:24 2012 -0500
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-from ftplib import FTP
-import sys
-
-# Get accession number from argument
-accession = sys.argv[1]
-outfile = sys.argv[2]
-prefix = accession[0:3]
-middle = accession[3:6]
-suffix = accession[6:9]
-
-# NCBI SRA FTP site
-ftp = FTP('ftp-trace.ncbi.nih.gov')
-
-# Open file and transfer requested SRA as a file
-# Try to change the working directory until it works
-sra = open(outfile, 'wb')
-ftp.login('ftp')
-connected = False
-while not connected:
-    try:
-        ftp.cwd('/sra/sra-instant/reads/ByRun/sra/' + 
-                prefix + '/' +
-                prefix + middle + '/' +
-                prefix + middle + suffix + '/')
-        connected = True
-    except:
-        pass
-        
-ftp.retrbinary('RETR ' + prefix + middle + suffix + '.sra', sra.write)
-ftp.quit()