#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
get_character.py
Usage: get_character "characterID"
Show some info about the character with the given imdbID (e.g. '0000001'
for "Jesse James".
"""
import sys
# Import the IMDbPY package.
try:
import imdb
except ImportError:
print 'You bad boy! You need to install the IMDbPY package!'
sys.exit(1)
if len(sys.argv) != 2:
print 'Only one argument is required:'
print ' %s "imdbID"' % sys.argv[0]
sys.exit(2)
imdbID = sys.argv[1]
i = imdb.IMDb()
out_encoding = sys.stdout.encoding or sys.getdefaultencoding()
try:
# Get a character object with the data about the character identified by
# the given imdbID.
character = i.get_character(imdbID)
except imdb.IMDbError, e:
print "Probably you're not connected to Internet. Complete error report:"
print e
sys.exit(3)
if not character:
print 'It seems that there\'s no character with imdbID "%s"' % imdbID
sys.exit(4)
# XXX: this is the easier way to print the main info about a character;
# calling the summary() method of a character object will returns a string
# with the main information about the character.
# Obviously it's not really meaningful if you want to know how
# to access the data stored in a character object, so look below; the
# commented lines show some ways to retrieve information from a
# character object.
print character.summary().encode(out_encoding, 'replace')
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