[Developers] Announcing freebase-python 1.0
Raymond Yee
raymond.yee at gmail.com
Sat Jul 11 14:27:48 UTC 2009
I ran into the same problem trying to do an update from svn. v 1.0 is
at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/freebase/1.0 and therefore, you can use
easy_install to get it....
-Raymond
Jason Douglas wrote:
> The downloads page only lists v0.5:
> http://code.google.com/p/freebase-python/downloads/list
>
> And the svn branches only go up to 0.5:
> http://code.google.com/p/freebase-python/source/browse/#svn/branches
>
> Where's 1.0?
>
> -jason
>
>
> On Jul 10, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Andrew Rodriguez wrote:
>
>
>> The freebase-python library 1.0 is now available! It introduces a new
>> syntax for accessing the freebase api, it updates the available
>> commands to reflect the entire web api, and it introduces some cool
>> schema manipulation utilities. It's backwards compatible with previous
>> versions of the library.
>>
>> The new syntax makes it easy to run started with freebase:
>>
>>>>> import freebase
>>>>> print freebase.mqlread({"id" : "/en/the_beatles", "name" : None})
>>>>>
>> {u'id': u'/en/the_beatles', u'name': u'The Beatles'}
>>
>> You can also access freebase.sandbox as easy
>>
>>
>>>>> import freebase.sandbox
>>>>> print freebase.sandbox.mqlread(...)
>>>>>
>> freebase-python now can do all current api calls that the website
>> handles. For a full list of the api calls and examples, you can refer
>> to http://code.google.com/p/freebase-python/wiki/GettingStarted.
>>
>> The schema manipulation utilities introduced make it easy copy and
>> move types, properties, and objects. This means that you can save
>> bases to your computer so that their survive a sandbox refresh, keep
>> different versions of your bases and types on your own machine, or
>> move types between bases. There are a few recipes on the freebase-
>> python wiki that you can find here: http://code.google.com/p/freebase-python/w/list?can=2&q=label%3ARecipe%2CSchema-Manipulation
>>
>> freebase-python is also very Google App Engine friendly. You can check
>> out how to write your own app at http://code.google.com/p/freebase-python/wiki/GoogleAppEngine
>> . You can also check out a sample app at http://freebase-images.appspot.com
>> .
>>
>> There are also more test and more docs!
>>
>> Installing is easy, if you have easy_install, just say
>> $ easy_install freebase
>> If you don't have easy_install, you can get it by running http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
>> .
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