def canonicalTitle(title, lang=None, imdbIndex=None):
"""Return the title in the canonic format 'Movie Title, The';
beware that it doesn't handle long imdb titles.
The 'lang' argument can be used to specify the language of the title.
"""
isUnicode = True
articlesDicts = linguistics.articlesDictsForLang(lang)
try:
if title.split(", ")[-1].lower() in articlesDicts[isUnicode]:
return title
except IndexError:
pass
_format = u"%s%s, %s"
ltitle = title.lower()
if imdbIndex:
imdbIndex = " (%s)" % imdbIndex
else:
imdbIndex = ""
spArticles = linguistics.spArticlesForLang(lang)
for article in spArticles[isUnicode]:
if ltitle.startswith(article):
lart = len(article)
title = _format % (title[lart:], imdbIndex, title[:lart])
if article[-1] == " ":
title = title[:-1]
break
return title
if canonical is not None:
if canonical:
name = canonicalName(name)
else:
name = normalizeName(name)
imdbIndex = name_dict.get("imdbIndex")
if imdbIndex:
name += " (%s)" % imdbIndex
return name
# XXX: here only for backward compatibility. Find and remove any dependency.
_articles = linguistics.GENERIC_ARTICLES
_unicodeArticles = linguistics.toUnicode(_articles)
articlesDicts = linguistics.articlesDictsForLang(None)
spArticles = linguistics.spArticlesForLang(None)
def canonicalTitle(title, lang=None, imdbIndex=None):
"""Return the title in the canonic format 'Movie Title, The';
beware that it doesn't handle long imdb titles.
The 'lang' argument can be used to specify the language of the title.
"""
isUnicode = True
articlesDicts = linguistics.articlesDictsForLang(lang)
try:
if title.split(", ")[-1].lower() in articlesDicts[isUnicode]:
return title
except IndexError:
pass