I'm wondering if anyone is using, or thinking of using, this imdbpy to give students an early appreciation for the power of an open source Python package, to deliver relevant movie-related information.
Cut and pasting (excerpting) from http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/docs/README.users.txt, the scripts look like this (if you've not used imdb: every movie, actor etc. is tagged with a number): $ get_movie.py 0133093 Movie ===== Title: Matrix, The Genres: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi. Director: Andy Wachowski (as The Wachowski Brothers), Larry Wachowski (as The Wachowski Brothers). Writer: Andy Wachowski (written by) (as The Wachowski Brothers), Larry Wachowski (written by) (as The Wachowski Brothers). Cast: Keanu Reeves (Neo (Thomas A. Anderson)), Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus), Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity), Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith), Joe Pantoliano (Cypher (Mr. Reagan)). Runtime: 136. Country: USA. Language: English. Rating: 8.5 Votes: 114,264 Plot: In the near future, a computer hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves) discovers that all life on Earth may be nothing more than an elaborate facade created by a malevolent cyber-intelligence, for the purpose of placating us while our life essence is "farmed" to fuel the Matrix's campaign of domination in the "real" world. He joins like-minded Rebel warriors Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie Ann Moss) in their struggle to overthrow the Matrix. I've written my own screen scraper for imdb (probably wrote about it here, don't remember), but it never performed satisfactorily. Used it with one Saturday Academy class as a part of my intro. At least useful for explaining what "screen scraper" means. Imdbpy would be more impressive I think, also better than the xml-rpc script we played with at Winterhaven (8th grade, write-up at my site). Kirby 4dsolutions.net _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
