Python help

johnisevil · 2005-06-10 20:00:56

I'm working on this script that refuses to work properly. I'm attempting to get output from a module and display it as a string but instead I get the following:

>>> show_song
<function show_song at 0xb7c1be2c>

Any ideas when I'm getting this kind of output?

xerxes2 · 2005-06-10 21:30:56

is it threaded? otherwise it usually spits out more specific errors,

Dusty · 2005-06-10 21:36:06

it actually looks like that isn't an error... looks like its a reference to the function, instead of calling the function.

maybe show_song() would work?

Dusty

johnisevil · 2005-06-10 21:44:24

This is what I'm trying to do (from the interpreter) to test it before I actually put it into a script. Still no luck.

>>> import mpdclient
>>> connect = mpdclient.MpdController(port=6600)
>>> connect.stop()
>>> connect.play()
>>> connect.getCurrentSong
<bound method MpdController.getCurrentSong of <mpdclient.MpdController object at 0xb7c241ac>>
>>> connect.getCurrentSong()
<mpdclient.Song object at 0xb7c482ac>
>>>

phrakture · 2005-06-10 21:46:51

johnisevil wrote:

>>> connect.getCurrentSong()
<mpdclient.Song object at 0xb7c482ac>
>>>

and? it's an object... you can't just print an object like that....
try "repr(connect.getCurrentSong())" or is it rep()... anyway... it's returning a Song object... look up the Song object and find the methods/members... I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say:

s=connect.getCurrentSong()
print s.title
print s.artist

cmp · 2005-06-10 21:47:41

connect.getCurrentSong() returns a song object, do:

song = connect.getCurrentSong()
dir(song)

this way you see all attributes/methods.

johnisevil · 2005-06-10 22:34:58

Thanks for the help guys, I'm in the process or relearning Python after almost 2 years of not using it so I'm starting off with my second Openbox pipe menu script. This is how it turned out.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import mpdclient

connect = mpdclient.MpdController(port=6600)
song = connect.getCurrentSong()
status = connect.status()

print "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>"
print "<openbox_pipe_menu>"
if status.stateStr() == "stop":
  print "  <item label="Not playing"/>"
else:
  print "  <item label="Playing: %s - %s"/>" % (song.artist, song.title)
print "</openbox_pipe_menu>"

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