Re: [Imdbpy-help] imdb_index and phonetic_code

2010-03-22 Thread Michael Liu
Thanks a lot for the explanations, much appreciated. I'm still mostly poking around the database right now just to see what data is in there, but I definitely appreciate the tip on using IMDbPY to extract information from the database. On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Davide Alberani wrote: > On

[Imdbpy-help] IMDbPY: build objects from XML dumps

2010-03-22 Thread Davide Alberani
I love Mercurial. :-) Have fun with this fork (soon it will be merged): http://bitbucket.org/alberanid/imdbpy_import_xml/overview/ New feature: since some time IMDbPY can dump its object into XML strings/files; now you can use this XML to recreated IMDbPY objects (instances of classes Movie, Per

Re: [Imdbpy-help] imdb_index and phonetic_code

2010-03-22 Thread Davide Alberani
On Mar 22, Michael Liu wrote: > In the title table generated by imdbpy2sql, what are the meanings of > the column titled imdb_index and phonetic_code? They are internally used, so they're not documented. phonetic_code (and the various *_pcode columns in other tables) is used when you search for

[Imdbpy-help] imdb_index and phonetic_code

2010-03-22 Thread Michael Liu
Forgive me if this is an overly obvious question, but I have not been able to locate the answer in the documentation. In the title table generated by imdbpy2sql, what are the meanings of the column titled imdb_index and phonetic_code? Thanks a lot in advance!