Module isbn :: Class LibraryOfCongress

Class LibraryOfCongress

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       SRU --+
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            LibraryOfCongress

Fetch bookinformation from the Library of Congress using sru.

LibCon uses the dc (dublin core) schema and requires no key.

An instance of class LibraryOfCongress may on success hold the following keys in its result variable:

title: the book title.
author: a list of full names of the author(s).
date: the date of publication.
publisher: the name of the publisher.

Instance Methods

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__init__(self)
Returns: an SRU instance.

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Inherited from SRU: fetch, getName, retrieve

Inherited from object: __delattr__, __format__, __getattribute__, __hash__, __new__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __repr__, __setattr__, __sizeof__, __str__, __subclasshook__

Properties

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Inherited from object: __class__

Method Details

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init(self)
(Constructor)

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x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

Parameters:

url - an url that will be used to retrieve information. Should contain a single '%s' placeholder to fot an isbn number.
contenthandlerfactory - a reference to a ContentHandler derived class.
name - the visible name for this class, stored in the result on success.

Returns:

an SRU instance.

Overrides: object.__init__

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Class LibraryOfCongress

__init__(self) (Constructor)

init(self)
(Constructor)