$ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rethinkdb/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install rethinkdb

$ cd /etc/rethinkdb/
$ sudo cp default.conf.sample instances.d/default.conf

$ sudo vi instances.d/default.conf
...
# bind=127.0.0.1
bind=0.0.0.0
...

$ sudo /etc/init.d/rethinkdb start
rethinkdb: default: Starting instance. (logging to `/var/lib/rethinkdb/default/data/log_file')

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ sudo pip install rethinkdb

$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Feb 27 2014, 19:58:35)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import rethinkdb
>>>

$ head -2 gene2go.txt
#Format: tax_id GeneID GO_ID Evidence Qualifier GO_term PubMed Category (tab is used as a separator, pound sign - start of a comment)
3702 814629 GO:0005634 ISM - nucleus - Component

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

import os, os.path, sys, re, csv, string

def csv2db():
    data = csv.reader(open('gene2go.txt', 'rb'), delimiter='/t')
    data.next()

    import rethinkdb as r
    r.connect('localhost', 28015).repl()
    r.db('test').table_create('gene2go').run()
    gene2go = r.db('test').table('gene2go')
    for row in data:
        gene2go.insert({
            'tax_id': row[0],
            'GeneID': row[1],
            'GO_ID': row[2],
            'Evidence': row[3],
            'Qualifier': row[4],
            'GO_term': row[5],
            'PubMed': row[6],
            'Category': row[7]
        }).run(durability="soft", noreply=True)

def main():
    csv2db()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()