Note
This package has been taken over by TODO, who has substantially re-engineered it and chnaged some of the API. This page is maintained for largely historical purposes.
The problem of sanitizing data (checking correctness and transforming to a useful form) is widespread throughout programming:
Interactive command-line programs need to query users for information, be it text, choices from a list, or simple yes-or-no answers. qanda is a module of simple functions to prompt users for such information, allowing validation and cleanup of answers, default responses, consistent formatting and presentation of help text, hints …
This package presents a number of methods for querying webservices for bibliographic information, and includes two scripts for querying and renaming files by ISBN.
This package can be installed by the usual Pythonic methods:
use your favourite installation tool:
% easy_install biblio.webquery
or download the source, unpack it …