On May 29, David Kaufman <david.kauf...@gmx.de> wrote: > To illustrate my example look at and you'll see the error right away:
Well, it's not an error: it's the expected behaviour. :-) Let's follow the code: > ia = IMDb('http') In the above line, you can set the optional parameter "loggingLevel" to "debug" to get a lot of information about what's going on. > sp = ia.get_movie('0121955') Here we get and parse the default info sets for a movie (i.e.: 'main' and 'plot'): http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0121955/combined http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0121955/plotsummary > ia.update(sp, "episodes") Here we're asking IMDbPY to fetch another info set ('episodes'): http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0121955/episodes By the way: for a list of available info sets, you can call the ia.get_movie_infoset() method (there are corresponding methods for companies, persons and characters, too). > randomepisode = seasons[1][2] randomepisode is a Movie instance created by the parser of the "episodes" page, and it can contain only the information available at that time. I.e.: the ones in: http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0121955/episodes As you can see there's a plot, but not a rating, there. At any time, you can see the list of information stored in a Movie/Person/Character/Company object with: randomepisode.keys() > print randomepisode.get("plot") #works > print randomepisode.get("rating") #prints None So, this is normal. > Note that I actually could call ia.update(randomepisode) and the > rating would appear but it's extremly slow. Unfortunately, until you fetch/parse the main page about that movie, your Movie instance can't contain the rating. You can do two things to speed up at least a little your code: 1. use the 'mobile' data access system ( e.g.: ia = IMDb('mobile') ) It uses a different set of parsers and fetches web pages which contain less information (but normally everything you need). 2. instead of a ia.update(randomepisode) call, you can do this: ia.update(randomepisode, 'main') to exclude at least the plot page. HTH, -- Davide Alberani <davide.alber...@gmail.com> [GPG KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://www.mimante.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Imdbpy-devel mailing list Imdbpy-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/imdbpy-devel