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YE DESCRIPTION
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MLB.com has a kind-of, sort-of API, providing a lot of league, team, and player information in XML and/or JSON. This
is a python abstraction library for that API.


YE REQUIREMENTS
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Python 2.6+ (2.5 will not work)

To save player data and game logs:
MySQLDb
MySQL 5.0 and up, maybe 4.x too - who knows?


YE INSTRUCTIONS
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python setup.py install
Run go.py in examples/ to see the magic.

To save player data and game logs:
* mysql -D DATABASE < sql/schema.sql
* Create a '.db.cfg' file in your home directory with valid MySQLdb connection information
 - http://mysql-python.sourceforge.net/MySQLdb.html
 - Check examples/.db.cfg for example


YE CAVEATS
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A work in progress! Still some design issues to iron out. Please do let me know if you think of any suggestions.


YE TODO
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* Add an easy sorting mechanism to team and league
* Better handle HTTP errors inside Fetcher
* Add memcache support


YE POINT OF CONTACT
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Wells Oliver, [email protected]
http://blog.wellsoliver.com