Hi,
this was a recurring theme: sometimes the "canonical title" for a
movie (the one in the "Movie Title, The" format) returned a wrong
title, because it does some simplistic assumptions about what
an article (in the grammatical sense) is.
Talking with Turgut we came up with a draft of possible solution;
it _can't be_ perfect, but it uses some smartness to guess the
language of (the title of) a movie.
What we need from you is:
1. the name of your language and a list of countries in which it's
the main lang (see the _LANG_COUNTRIES dictionary in the new
articles.py file [1]).
2. a list of articles (if possible in order of using frequency)
in that language - see the LANG_ARTICLES dictionary.
An example that actually works:
from imdb import IMDb
ia = IMDb('http')
m = ia.get_movie('0095016') # Die Hard (1988), a well known problematic case
print m['canonical title'], '::', m['smart canonical title']
print m['long imdb canonical title'], '::', m['smart long imdb canonical
title']
How it works:
- the utils.canonicalTitle and the utils.build_title functions now
accept the 'lang' argument, which can be None (in this case the old
behaviour is triggered - and the same is true if the given lang is
not known) or can be any language specified in the articles.LANG_ARTICLES
dictionary.
- the Movie class has a 'smartCanonicalTitle' method, which tries to
guess the language of the movie using the first production country. If
not found, it uses the first languages.
- the smartCanonicalTitle method is called by some keys, like:
movie['smart canonical title']
movie['smart long imdb canonical title']
movie['smart canonical series title']
movie['smart canonical episode title']
As usual, I'm open to any hint; the current implementation is far from
perfect and was done in a very short amount of time.
I'm not yet sure that testing the production country first, and only
later the language of a movie, is a good idea. What do you think?
+++
[1]
http://imdbpy.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/imdbpy/trunk/imdbpy/imdb/articles.py?view=markup
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