Exposing My Toast

A special request from stan, here are the codes...

Python script to query Freebase [download]:

from django.utils import simplejson
from freebase.api import HTTPMetawebSession, MetawebError

mss = HTTPMetawebSession('www.freebase.com')

print 'Content-Type: application/x-suggestions+json; charset=UTF-8'

form = cgi.FieldStorage()
queryString = form['q'].value

try:
 results = mss.search(queryString, 'false', '10', '0', 'html')
 suggestions = [queryString]
 terms = []
 for result in results:
     terms.append(result.name)
 suggestions.append(terms)
 print simplejson.dumps(suggestions)
except Exception:
 print "<An error occured.>"

Additions to freebase-python API (session.py) [download]:

def search(self, _query, _strict, _limit, _start, _escape):
 """search Freebase"""
 service = '/api/service/search'

 self.log.info('%s: %s',
               service,
               Delayed(logformat, _query))

 r = self._httpreq_json(service, form=dict(query=_query,strict=_strict,limit=_limit,start=_start,escape=_escape))

 return self._mqlresult(r)

Please feel free to point out any areas that I can improve. I'm still trying to resolve the issue whereby the suggestions do not return quickly enough.

Note: The text is truncated at the end. I will post a link to the source codes later. My apologies. [Updated] Download links now available.