[mythtv-users] delete_recordings.py

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 07 Jun 2022 16:25:35 +0200, you wrote:

>Per Jessen wrote:
>
>> I see the wiki says support in version 24 only -
>> 
>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Delete_recordings.py
>> 
>> I've used the script with version 29, and now also 30, only one minor
>> problem, see below.  Not exactly any exhaustive tests though.
>> 
>> Below is a list of matching recordings:
>>          0. [2021-12-11T23:15:00+01:00] Titanic au coeur de l'épave -
>> deleting
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/local/bin/delete_recording.py", line 132, in <module>
>>     print 'deleting',str(rec)
>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in
>> position 33: ordinal not in range(128)
>
>Please ignore this, it is a local(e) issue. 

Unfortunately, it is Python 2 and will not work with later versions of
MythTV as they use Python 3.  It looks to be fairly simple code so it
should convert easily to Python 3.