[imdbpy-Help] How to get a list of all movies and its actors

[Li Xu]

Hi!

I am currently doing a project to analysis movie data and find out what makes a good movie revenue. I am quite new in this field, and I met one question, I use "get_movie( )" in IMDBpy tot the movie title. But I find out the argument in get_movie() seems need to numbers, it can't be a variable stored integers (I want to make a for loop and make the variable changes all the time, to get all movies from IMDB).

Can someone help me out? Tks@ 

[Davide Alberani]

Hi,
for some basics about python programming I suggest
http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/
and http://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/

Basically, what you want can be done with a list. E.g.:
list_of_movie_ids = ['0133093', '0234215', '0242653']
for movie_id in list_of_movie_ids:
...use movie_id in the call to get_movie()...

To generate a sequence you can use the range or xrange
builtin python functions.


Hope this helps.

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