#!/usr/bin/env python """ get_first_character.py Usage: get_first_character "character name" Search for the given name and print the best matching result. """ 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 "character 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 character objects). results = i.search_character(name) except imdb.IMDbError, e: print "Probably you're not connected to Internet. Complete error report:" print e sys.exit(3) if not results: print 'No matches for "%s", sorry.' % name.encode(out_encoding, 'replace') sys.exit(0) # Print only the first result. print ' Best match for "%s"' % name.encode(out_encoding, 'replace') # This is a character instance. character = results[0] # So far the character object only contains basic information like the # name; retrieve main information: i.update(character) print character.summary().encode(out_encoding, 'replace')