On Jun 18, Kristopher Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello IMDBpy World,
Hi Earthlings - we come in peace. Sort of. ;-)
> Does the local installation requisite unix to function properly?
Geee... I fear. I'm not sure if the moviedb program can compile
in a cygwin/mingw environment: the code is nice and clean, but
I've never tried it on windows.
> What is the best way to get a persons filmography in a neat
> non-marked up format?
Depends on your needs.
If you want to use IMDbPY, I think the 'sql' data access system best
suites your requirement. E.g. (untested):
from imdb import IMDb
ia = IMDb('sql', 'mysql://name:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/db')
person = ia.get_person(personID)
name = person['name']
for movie in person.get('actor') or person.get('actress', []):
print '%s acted in %s in the role of %s' % (name, movie['title'],
movie.currentRole)
If performance is an issue and you just need a list of titles, I
assume the best thing would be to write your own script to parse
the actors.list.gz and actresses.list.gz files.
Describe your requirements: I've a bit of experience, extracting info
from the IMDb database. :-)
> How many active developers are on this project?
On the whole project, me. Actually H. Turgut Uyar is actively trying
to write a replacement for the 'http' parsers, introducing a DOM/XPath
set of parsers.
In the past years, I've had other contributions (as an example I share
the copyright of the 'sql' code with Giuseppe "Cowo" Corbelli) on
IMDbPY and in related programs.
> The code is extensive but the commentary is small in comparison.
I'm deadly offended. <g>
Tomorrow morning, at dawn. Choose your weapon amongst pydoc,
epydoc and doxygen. Bring your seconds. ;-)
No, seriously: there's a bit of documentation. But I admit it's not
very well structured and is written in my English-Bolognese, and
that may scare a lot of people. :-)
Have you downloaded the docs for windows [1]? For some reason the
packager cowardly refuses to put the docs, in the Windows installer...
As usual, any help is welcome! :-)
+++
[1] http://prdownloads.sf.net/imdbpy/IMDbPY-win32-docs-3.6.zip?download
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