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Name: wikiquotes
Version: 1.3
Summary: Wikiquotes python API
Home-page: https://github.com/FranDepascuali/wikiquotes-python-api
Author: Francisco Depascuali
Author-email: francisco.depascuali@gmail.com
License: MIT License

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Description: |Python| |License|
        
        wikiquotes-python-api
        =====================
        
        This library is intended to be a python API for wikiquotes (inspired by
        `python-wikiquotes <https://github.com/federicotdn/python-wikiquotes/>`__).
        
        Table of Contents
        -----------------
        
        -  `Usage <#usage>`__
        -  `Motivation <#motivation>`__
        -  `Search <#search>`__
        -  `Output <#output>`__
        -  `Testing <#testing>`__
        
        Usage
        -----
        
        .. code:: python
        
            >>> import wikiquotes
        
            >>> wikiquotes.search("gandi", "english")
            [u'Mahatma Gandhi', u'Indira Gandhi', u'Rahul Gandhi', u'Rajiv Gandhi', u'Arun Manilal Gandhi', u'Gandhi (film)', u'Anand Gandhi', u'Virchand Gandhi', u'Maneka Gandhi', u'Blindness']
        
            >>> wikiquotes.get_quotes('Hau Pei-tsun', "english")
            # [u"The slogans of 'countering back the mainland' created by Chiang Kai-shek and 'liberating Taiwan' by Mao Zedong several decades ago should be forgotten because none of them could be put into practice.",
            #  u'When people on both sides of the Strait reach a consensus on their political system, unification will come to fruition naturally.',
            #  u'Taiwanese independence is a dead end.']
        
            >>> wikiquotes.quote_of_the_day("english")
            # (u'Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.', u'Kalki Krishnamurthy')
        
            >>> wikiquotes.quote_of_the_day("spanish")
            # (u'Por San Ferm\xedn, el calor no tiene fin', u'Refr\xe1n espa\xf1ol')
        
            >>> wikiquotes.random_quote("Aristotle", "english")
            # u'For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.'
        
            >>> wikiquotes.supported_languages()
            # ['english', 'spanish']
        
        Motivation
        ----------
        
        There seems to be two options for retrieving quotes from WikiQuotes using python: To implement it
        yourself or to use `python-wikiquotes <https://github.com/federicotdn/python-wikiquotes/>`__. At a
        first glance, I chose the second option and used that library. However, usage and code inspection
        over `python-wikiquotes <https://github.com/federicotdn/python-wikiquotes/>`__ lead me to choose the
        first approach and develop a library.
        
        The main reasons for this decision were that: 1. Quotes retrieved weren't all the quotes in
        wikiquotes API (tried with different authors). 2. It doesn't work for python 2.x 2. The code was too
        complex for what it was achieving. The choice in that project was to use urllib to retrieve the
        quotes, and lxml to parse the html.
        
        This project: 1. Adds tests for retrieving all the quotes from several authors (Though this point is
        difficult to satisfy, because quotes don't respect a format for all authors). 2. Works for python
        2.x and 3.x 3. Uses requests and BeautifulSoup, which abstract great part of the complexity which is
        present in `python-wikiquotes <https://github.com/federicotdn/python-wikiquotes/>`__.
        
        Anyway, the correct approach would be to try both and stick with the one that gives you the best
        results.
        
        Search
        ------
        
        Quotes are retrieved by searching first for the correct author. This strives for robustness, because
        it allows to return a quote whether the input is the correct name of the author or not. At the same
        time, note that subsequent calls to WikiQuotes api have to be made to grab suggestions (see
        `here <https://github.com/FranDepascuali/wikiquotes-python-api/blob/master/wikiquotes/managers/api_manager.py#L20>`__).
        
        Example: "shakspare" -> "shakespeare" -> ['William Shakespeare', 'Last words in Shakespeare',
        'Shakespeare in Love', ...] -> get\_quotes = 4 calls.
        
        Output
        ------
        
        While in python 3.x str type = unicode, in python 2.x str type != unicode. Therefore (and to be
        consistent), all string output are unicode strings, independent of python's version. If you call any
        function from the API that have non-english characters, you will see some weird characters.
        
        .. code:: python
        
            >>> wikiquotes.random_quote("borges", "español")
            # u'\xabTodos caminamos hacia el anonimato, solo que los mediocres llegan un poco antes\xbb.'
        
        This is not incorrect, it is the underlying representation of the format of the string. You could
        encode the string in utf-8 and print it (or just print it and your python interpreter should convert
        it automatically).
        
        .. code:: python
        
            >>> print(u'\xabTodos caminamos hacia el anonimato, solo que los mediocres llegan un poco antes\xbb.'.encode('utf8'))
            # «Todos caminamos hacia el anonimato, solo que los mediocres llegan un poco antes».
        
        Testing
        -------
        
        The approach for testing changed: at a first glance, testing was done by manually adding the code to
        test each author. After that, I realized that the structure was the same for every author: We need
        the name, the language and the quotes. Using some *black* magic for parametrizing tests, I could
        extract all the logic to code and have a text file for each author. (See
        `author\_test <https://github.com/FranDepascuali/wikiquotes-python-api/blob/master/tests/test_suite/author_test.py>`__
        for more info.)
        
        The way of testing right now is to add a txt file of the author to test's
        `authors <https://github.com/FranDepascuali/wikiquotes-python-api/tree/master/tests/authors>`__. For
        example,
        `here <https://github.com/FranDepascuali/wikiquotes-python-api/blob/master/tests/authors/dijkstra.txt>`__
        is the test for Dijkstra quotes in english. Adding a new author is a txt file for the author (the
        name is irrelevant, but should be the author name) and respecting the following format. 1. First
        line: Author's name (or the suffix of the wikiquotes page, because sometimes wikipedia has ambiguate
        redirections if author name is used ). 2. Second line: language. 3. Third line: empty. 4. Following
        lines should contain one quote per line.
        
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Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6
