I'm trying to parse a MARC file downloaded from the Library of Congress. I've successfully downloaded the record using the PyZ3950, but when I try to parse the file using PyMarc, I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 13, in <module>
for record in reader:
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.9-intel/egg/pymarc/reader.py", line 83, in next
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '<PyZ3'
And here is my full code:
from PyZ3950 import zoom, zmarc
from pymarc import MARCReader
conn = zoom.Connection('z3950.loc.gov', 7090)
conn.databaseName = 'VOYAGER'
conn.preferredRecordSyntax = 'USMARC'
query = zoom.Query('CCL', 'ti="1066 and all that"')
res = conn.search(query)
reader = MARCReader(str(res))
for record in reader:
print record.title()
conn.close()
Your statement:
res = conn.search(query)
return a ResultSet
, accordingly to http://www.panix.com/~asl2/software/PyZ3950/zoom.html
Each record r
in the resultSet
have the data in r.data
So, you have to feed the MARCReader with each r.data
or with them all concatenated.
This will work:
from PyZ3950 import zoom, zmarc
from pymarc import MARCReader
conn = zoom.Connection('z3950.loc.gov', 7090)
conn.databaseName = 'VOYAGER'
conn.preferredRecordSyntax = 'USMARC'
query = zoom.Query('CCL', 'ti="1066 and all that"')
res = conn.search(query)
marc = ''
for r in res:
marc = marc + r.data
reader = MARCReader(marc)
for record in reader:
print record.title()
conn.close()