[mythtv-users] User Job to rip subtitles from each program

[David Crawford]

Would it be "be" and "starttime" ?

On 3 February 2012 18:06, David Crawford <davidcrawford83 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, i thought you might be doing that and im trying my best but getting a
> bit confused.
>
> Would it be "be" and "chanid"? what is "be"? supposed to be?
>
> On 3 February 2012 18:03, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>
>>  On 2/3/2012 12:50, David Crawford wrote:
>>
>> On 3 February 2012 17:45, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  On 2/3/2012 12:41, David Crawford wrote:
>>>
>>> On 3 February 2012 17:34, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/3/2012 12:23, David Crawford wrote:
>>>> > if len(sys.argv) != 3:
>>>>  >     chanid, starttime = sys.argv[1:3]
>>>>
>>>> Looks like this one's my fault.  You want it to run only when you have
>>>> the proper number of command line arguments.  This does the opposite.
>>>>
>>>> if len(sys.argv) != 3:
>>>>     raise Exception('Invalid argument count')
>>>> chanid, starttime = sys.argv[1:3]
>>>>
>>>> > prog = be.getRecording(<chanid>, <starttime>)
>>>>
>>>>  "<chanid>" and "<starttime>" are still not valid variables.
>>>
>>>
>>> So what can i do about  "<chanid>" and "<starttime>"  ?
>>>
>>>
>>>  Use two variables you've already defined, that you think would be
>>> storing values for those two pieces of data.  (Hint: You've only defined
>>> three variables so far.)
>>>
>>>
>> %DIR% and %FILE%?
>>
>>
>> Those are strings that get substituted in for values as they get passed
>> though the jobqueue on the way to being executed.  Since the top of the
>> script, you've defined three variables: "be", "chanid", and "starttime".
>> Now two of those make sense for what should be used in place of "<chanid>"
>> and "<starttime>".
>>
>> In case you haven't realized, I've been giving you these hints in an
>> attempt to get you to read through the code and try to understand what it's
>> doing.
>>
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