created simple python ETL for importing item attribs.. will probably …

…stay part of core package once made generic and more robes

rpm/item_import.py

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+#simple script for importing u_iem
+
+import redis
+import sys
+
+from config import Config
+
+
+#config
+cfg = Config()
+
+#redis connect (pipeline)
+rC = redis.Redis(cfg.g('redis','host'))
+pL     = rC.pipeline(cfg.g('redis','port'))
+
+
+#read file
+itemfile = "/Users/elliottcordo/Projects/Caserta/rpM/sample_data/movie_lens/u_item.txt" # str(sys.argv)
+items = open (itemfile)
+
+#read the lines
+records = items.readlines()
+
+#loop split and write to redis
+for line in records:
+    #print line
+    parsed_line = line.split('|')
+    #print parsed_line[0]+ ' name ' + parsed_line[1]
+    pL.hset ('I'+str(parsed_line[0]),'name', parsed_line[1])
+    pL.hset ('I'+str(parsed_line[0]),'imdb', parsed_line[4])
+
+
+pL.execute()
+
+items.close()