Regex and show name problem

Hi,

I literally started learning python two hours ago in an attempt to produce a script that can monitor my mythtv box recording status. Scripts do exist but they all see live tv as a recording. So I wanted a custom script.

I have this so far:

#!/usr/bin/python

import httplib
import time
import MythTV
import twitter
import re

from MythTV import MythDB, MythBE

prefix = 'Recording: '

db1 = MythDB(args=(('DBHostName','localhost'),
('DBName','mythconverg'),
('DBUserName','mythtv'),
('DBPassword','################')))

LastTweet1 = ' '
LastTweet2 = ' '

be1 = MythBE(db=db1)

api = twitter.Api(username='########', password='#########')

Encoder1 = "Encoder 1 "
Encoder2 = "Encoder 2 "
Recording = "is local on chimera and is recording"

while(True):
Connection = httplib.HTTPConnection("localhost:6544")
Connection.request("GET", "/")
Results = Connection.getresponse().read()

if Encoder1+Recording in Results:
REC1 = be1.getCurrentRecording(1)
result = re.search ( "\'[A-Z a-z 0-9]*\'", str(REC1) )
Show = result.group ( 0 )
if LastTweet1 != Show:
LastTweet1 = Show
tempPrefix = prefix
tempPrefix += Show
api.PostUpdate(tempPrefix)

if Encoder2+Recording in Results:
REC2 = be1.getCurrentRecording(2)
result = re.search ( "\'[A-Z a-z 0-9]*\'", str(REC2) )
Show = result.group ( 0 )
if LastTweet2 != Show:
LastTweet2 = Show
tempPrefix = prefix
tempPrefix += Show
api.PostUpdate(tempPrefix)

time.sleep(10)


It works fine minus one small problem...
be1.getCurrentRecording(1)
returns the recording in this format:
<Program '4Music's Top 20','2010-06-05 01:30:00' at 0x1dd4050>


The problem I have is if I have a show like the above 4Music's Top 20 then my regex code will produce '4Music'

I there a better way to get the show name from the given string?

Please excuse any bad programming! Im a newbie of two hours :)

Thanks
Chris

Sorry I know nothing about the MythBE module. But from what I've found in the module's Wiki (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Python_bindings#getCurrentRecording.28recorder.29), getCurrentRecording is supposed to return a Program object.

--- [Edit: just looked at the MythData.Program source...] ---
You can try looking for "4Music" in the Program object's title, as in:
REC1 = be1.getCurrentRecording(1)
if "4Music" in REC1.title:
# do stuff...

There's no need to use the "re" module. At least, I don't think so.