Regex and show name problem

[ck3mp]

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

[Samhain13]

Sorry I know nothing about the MythBE module. But from what I've found in the module's Wiki, 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.