Python IMDbPY - Checking if person is part of movie or not

In this article we will see how we can check if some person was part of the movie or not, lot of people work to make a movie and some times we don’t know if a person is in that movie or not, but with the help in operator we can check.

Implementation steps :

1. Get the movie data with the help of get_movie method
2. Get the person data with the help of get_person method
3. Using in operator check if person was part of movie or not
4. Show the result

Below is the implementation

# importing the module 
import imdb 
  
# creating instance of IMDb 
ia = imdb.IMDb() 
  
# ID 
code = "4434004"
  
# getting movie 
movie = ia.get_movie(code) 
  
# person id 
code2 = "1372788"
  
# getting person 
person = ia.get_person(code2) 
  
# printing movie object 
print(movie) 
  
# printing person object 
print(person) 
  
print("===============") 
  
# checking if person is in the movie or not 
if person in movie: 
    print("Yes !!") 
      
else: 
    print("No !!") 

Output :

Udta Punjab
Shahid Kapoor
===============
Yes!!

Another example

# importing the module 
import imdb 
  
# creating instance of IMDb 
ia = imdb.IMDb() 
  
# ID 
code = "1187043"
  
# getting movie 
movie = ia.get_movie(code) 
  
# person id 
code2 = "1372788"
  
# getting person 
person = ia.get_person(code2) 
  
# printing movie object 
print(movie) 
  
# printing person object 
print(person) 
  
print("===============") 
  
# checking if person is in the movie or not 
if person in movie: 
    print("Yes !!") 
      
else: 
    print("No !!") 

Output :

3 Idiots
Shahid Kapoor
===============
No!!

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