def get_book_info(some_isbn):
if not amazon.is_valid_isbn(some_isbn):
return some_isbn + " is not a valid ISBN"
isbn10, isbn13 = amazon.fix_isbn(some_isbn)
url = "http://isbndb.com/api/v2/json/" + ISBNDB_ACCOUNT_NUMBER + "/book/" + isbn13
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
book_info = json.loads(response.read())
return book_info
def get_book_title(some_isbn):
if not amazon.is_valid_isbn(some_isbn):
return some_isbn + " is not a valid ISBN"
isbn10, isbn13 = amazon.fix_isbn(some_isbn)
book_info = get_book_info(isbn13)
# the following statement assumes the isbn was found.
# we should probably test for error conditions.
return book_info["data"][0]["title_latin"]