#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
search_person.py
Usage: search_person "person name"
Search for the given name and print the results.
"""
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 "person name"' % sys.argv[0]
sys.exit(2)
name = sys.argv[1]
i = imdb.IMDb()
in_encoding = sys.stdin.encoding or sys.getdefaultencoding()
out_encoding = sys.stdout.encoding or sys.getdefaultencoding()
name = unicode(name, in_encoding, 'replace')
try:
# Do the search, and get the results (a list of Person objects).
results = i.search_person(name)
except imdb.IMDbError, e:
print "Probably you're not connected to Internet. Complete error report:"
print e
sys.exit(3)
# Print the results.
print ' %s result%s for "%s":' % (len(results),
('', 's')[len(results) != 1],
name.encode(out_encoding, 'replace'))
print 'personID\t: imdbID : name'
# Print the long imdb name for every person.
for person in results:
outp = u'%s\t: %s : %s' % (person.personID, i.get_imdbID(person),
person['long imdb name'])
print outp.encode(out_encoding, 'replace')
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