Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python?

[Dan Stromberg]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Dec 10, 2013, at 6:25 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The IMDB flat text file probably came the closest, but it appears to
> have encoding issues; it's apparently nearly windows-1255, but not quite.
>
> It's ISO-8859-1.
>
Thanks - that reads well from CPython 3.3.

Now the question becomes: Why did chardet tell me it was windows-1255?  :)


> Both certificates.list.gz and mpaa-ratings-reasons.list.gz are rather
> straightforward to parse.
>
Sure, with an appropriate encoding.


> For the US, you will get something along these lines out of
> certificates.list.gz:
>
> USA:(Banned)
> USA:12
> USA:AO
> USA:Approved
> USA:C
> USA:E
> USA:E10+
> USA:G
> USA:GP
> USA:K-A
> USA:M
> USA:M/PG
> USA:NC-17
> USA:Not Rated
> USA:Open
> USA:PG
> USA:PG-13
> USA:Passed
> USA:R
> USA:T
> USA:TV-14
> USA:TV-G
> USA:TV-MA
> USA:TV-PG
> USA:TV-Y
> USA:TV-Y7
> USA:Unrated
> USA:X
>
> And as mentioned, imdbpy handles all this out-of-the-box if you don’t feel
> like doing it yourself.

But I believe imdbpy is 2.7 only.
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