A simple pythonic wrapper for the Nobel Prize API.
Project description
A simple Python wrapper for the Nobel Prize API.
Quickstart
First, initialize the API wrapper:
import nobel api = nobel.Api()
Now you have access to the resources defined by the API (prizes, laureates and countries) and their methods.
For example, to list all laureates:
>>> for laureate in api.laureates.all(): ... print '%s (%s)' % (laureate, laureate.born_country)
To filter (check the Nobel Prize API documentation for all available filtering parameters):
>>> api.laureates.filter(gender='female', born_country='Iran') [<Laureate id=773>, <Laureate id=817>] >>> api.prizes.filter(year=1969) [<Prize category="physics" year=1969>, <Prize category="chemistry" year=1969>, <Prize category="medicine" year=1969>, <Prize category="literature" year=1969>, <Prize category="peace" year=1969>, <Prize category="economics" year=1969>]
To retrieve a single resource:
>>> laureate = api.laureates.get(id=26) >>> laureate.firstname u'Albert' >>> laureate.surname u'Einstein' >>> laureate.prizes [<Prize category="physics" year=1921>] >>> laureate.born_country <Country code="DE" name="Germany"> >>> laureate.died_country <Country code="US" name="USA"> >>> prize = api.prizes.get(year=2000, category='economics') >>> print ", ".join([str(l) for l in prize.laureates]) James J. Heckman, Daniel L. McFadden
As you can see, every Prize object is given a laureates attribute populated with a list of its Laureate objects. Likewise, every Laureate objects is given a prizes attribute with Prize objects.
Attributes and query parameters in the Nobel Prize API are mixedCase, but this wrapper uses the more pythonic lower_case_with_underscores style and takes care of the conversion when filtering and accessing attributes.
TODO
setup.py and PyPI upload.
Documentation and full reference
Tests
More ORM-ish stuff, like filtering using Prize, Laureate or Country objects as arguments
Add relation attributes, like affiliations.
Credits
This is inspired by the beautifully written hipchat-api wrapper.
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