#!/usr/bin/env python """ get_top_bottom_movies.py Usage: get_top_bottom_movies Return top and bottom 10 movies, by ratings. """ 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) != 1: print 'No arguments are required.' sys.exit(2) i = imdb.IMDb() top250 = i.get_top250_movies() bottom100 = i.get_bottom100_movies() out_encoding = sys.stdout.encoding or sys.getdefaultencoding() for label, ml in [('top 10', top250[:10]), ('bottom 10', bottom100[:10])]: print '' print '%s movies' % label print 'rating\tvotes\ttitle' for movie in ml: outl = u'%s\t%s\t%s' % (movie.get('rating'), movie.get('votes'), movie['long imdb title']) print outl.encode(out_encoding, 'replace')