humancoords = dict()

gzed = urllib.urlopen(HUMANCOORDS_REMOTE_FILE).read()
content = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO.StringIO(gzed))
lines = (x.strip() for x in content)
data = (x.split("\t") for x in lines)
filtered = (x for x in data if x[11]=="GENE" and x[12]=="Primary Assembly")

for ar in filtered:
    humanid = ar[10].replace("GeneID:", "") # GeneID:100131754
    humancoords[humanid] = (ar[1], ar[2], ar[3], ar[4])