[Developers] Python libraries

[Tom Morris]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Kurt Bollacker <kurt at spaceship.com> wrote:

> I tried both free python clients and found a memory leak in
> freebase-api, so I've been using metaweb.py, making hacks as needed to
> add functionality. Perhaps it's time for this code to become community
> owned, rather than gifts from the sky.

I'd be happy to help with this.  The wiki describing the differences
between the two seems to espouse a "let a thousand flowers bloom"
philosophy, but I'd rather have a single well crafted library that
covers the entire API.  I don't really care which library is used as
the starting point.  I've mainly been doing short running data loading
work, so I hadn't noticed the memory leak.

I grabbed the search function from metaweb-py, but then ended up
having to change the API because the way it's specified doesn't allow
for repeated 'type=' parameters on the query.

Before charging ahead, perhaps we should give Metaweb an opportunity
to clarify whether they feel ownership of these libraries and what
work, if any, they've been doing internally on them.

Tom