Get Taxa scientific name and lineage from Entrez

tax_ids_to_name_and_lineage.py

from Bio import Entrez


taxids_filename = '/tmp/taxids.list'  # Replace with the path to your Tax IDs file!
with open(taxids_filename) as f:
    tax_ids = f.read().split('\n')

Entrez.email = '[email protected]'  # Put your email here
handle = Entrez.efetch('taxonomy', id=tax_ids, rettype='xml')
response = Entrez.read(handle)

for entry in response:
    sci_name = entry.get('ScientificName')
    lineage_taxa = entry.get('Lineage').split(';')
    print(sci_name, ' > '.join(lineage_taxa), sep=',')