#DOCUMENTATION

These are some of the documents for the current stable (4.9) IMDbPY release.

#EXAMPLES

Here is a short example of how you can use it directly from the Python interpreter or in your own programs:

			#!/usr/bin/env python
 
 # Import the imdb package.

			import imdb
 
 # Create the object that will be used to
			access the IMDb's database.
 ia = imdb.IMDb() # by default
			access the web.
 
 # Search for a movie (get a list of
			Movie objects).
 s_result = ia.search_movie('The Untouchables')

			
 # Print the long imdb canonical title and movieID of the
			results.
 for item in s_result:
    print item['long imdb
			canonical title'], item.movieID
 
 # Retrieves default
			information for the first result (a Movie object).
 the_unt =
			s_result[0]
 ia.update(the_unt)
 
 # Print some
			information.
 print the_unt['runtime']
 print
			the_unt['rating']
 director = the_unt['director'] # get a list
			of Person objects.
 
 # Get the first item listed as a
			"goof".
 ia.update(the_unt, 'goofs')
 print
			the_unt['goofs'][0]
 
 # The first "trivia" for
			the first director.
 b_depalma = director[0]

			ia.update(b_depalma)
 print b_depalma['trivia'][0]
		

Another example, using a local SQL database, after you've populated it with the data from the plain text data files using the imdbpy2sql.py script like this (assuming you've already created an imdb empty database: see documentation for more information):

python imdbpy2sql.py -d /path/to/the/plain/text/data/files/ -u
mysql://USER:PASSWD@localhost/imdb

			#!/usr/bin/env python
 
 from imdb import IMDb
 
			ia = IMDb('sql', uri='mysql://USER:PASSWORD@localhost/imdb')

			search_sk = ia.search_person(u'Stanley Kubrick')
 for person in
			search_sk:
    print person['name'],
			person.personID
 
 sk = search_sk[0]
 ia.update(sk)

			print 'Last directed movie:', sk['director'][0]

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