Re: [Gramps-users] script for read-only db access

[Warren P. <wpo...@gm...>]

This started because I wanted to ask family members to help supply
missing information for the database I've started to maintain.  For
example, there are several people (wives) for whom I have no last name.
 I could use a filter to get the records for these people (wives with no
last name), but I couldn't figure out how to generate a list of names
that I could include in mail requesting help - so I thought that I might
be able to query the DB directly (#2 below) - something like "select all
people where last_name_of_spouse = ''".  I don't want to have go to each
record (using gramps) to get the information I need - I want to generate
the list and copy-and-paste it into the mail.

Alex Roitman wrote:
> Warren,
> 
> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 17:01 -0500, Warren Pollans wrote:
>> Could someone please send me a simple script that I could use to read
>> the persons db from the commandline?  I don't speak python, but I am
>> fluent in both perl and ruby.  If someone could provide a template for
>> me, I'd appreciate it.  I've just started looking thru the docs on the
>> developer's wiki - and hope to understand how gramps works before too
>> long.  I'm using gramps and I'm pretty happy with it.
> 
> I am a little unclear as to what exactly you want to do:
> 1. Have a python script to extract data as python objects
>    in terms of Gramps-defined classes?
> 2. Have a shell script to print some data on stdout?
>    If so, which data? Names? Birthdates?
> 3. Something else?
> 
> Number 1 gives you all the flexibility, but you have to
> then work with python classes in python. Number 2 may work
> with names and IDs, but for anything else somebody
> has to write python code to do that.
> 
> Let us know what you meant,
> Alex
>