[Developers] Prototyping in the sandbox

[Philip Kendall]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:34:49PM -0700, Paul Mackay wrote:
> 
> Currently there seems to be the data dumps in 2 formats and then the Python
> API that returns results as Python data structures. Has there been any
> discussion to provide something in between

There already is something inbetween, which is the JSON-over-HTTP API.
It's this which is used by the Python library - all that's doing is
taking the JSON returned from the HTTP API and putting it into Python
data structures. See for example the very first examples in
<http://mql.freebaseapps.com/ch01.html>.

Hope this helps,

Phil

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