Noted, I will try to test this on linux at the end of this week.

Thank you @ijabz!

What version of python are you running? Do you think it's ok if 3.6 is the minimum we support?

There seems to be a bug with exporting artist so I couldn't complete test:

ubuntu@ip-172-31-39-147:/code/discogs-xml2db$ python3 run.py --export artist . csv-dir
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "run.py", line 23, in
sys.exit(main(arguments))
File "/home/ubuntu/code/discogs-xml2db/discogsxml2db/exporter.py", line 323, in main
dry_run=dry_run)
File "/home/ubuntu/code/discogs-xml2db/discogsxml2db/exporter.py", line 166, in init
('group_member', _group_members, None), )
NameError: name '_group_members' is not defined
ubuntu@ip-172-31-39-147:/code/discogs-xml2db$

Also some simple nice to to haves would be :

1. Would be neater if get_latest_dumps actually put files in a dump-dir instead of current dir

2. csv-dir has to exist before run run.py,
   e.g

ubuntu@ip-172-31-39-147:~/code/discogs-xml2db$ python3 run.py --export label dump-dir csv-dir
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "run.py", line 23, in
sys.exit(main(arguments))
File "/home/ubuntu/code/discogs-xml2db/discogsxml2db/exporter.py", line 324, in main
exporter.export()
File "/home/ubuntu/code/discogs-xml2db/discogsxml2db/exporter.py", line 71, in export
return self.export_from_file(self.openfile())
File "/home/ubuntu/code/discogs-xml2db/discogsxml2db/exporter.py", line 114, in export_from_file
operations = self.build_ops()
File "/home/ubuntu/code/discogs-xml2db/discogsxml2db/exporter.py", line 90, in build_ops
out_file_obj = open_func(os.path.join(self.out_dir, fname), 'wt', newline='', encoding='utf-8')
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'csv-dir/label.csv'
would be better if could automatically be created

3. Would be good if run.py --export release dump-dir csv-dir exported all four files, that seems the default we usually want instead of having to specify all four files, instead it does nothing.

Thank you, @ijabz - what version of Python are you running? (python -V)

It says Python 2.7.6 but I do have Python 3 installed as well and the current code with speedup subfolder works for me, exports of Label, Master and Release appear to work.

Sorry, I meant python3 -V - I'm assuming you're running with python3 run.py..., right?

@ijabz - could you grab latest and try again, please?

It should also automatically create the whatever path you specify for output, if it doesn't exist (issue #108)

Oh python3 -V using 3.4.3 so I need to update then ?

Python 3.4 is no longer an active Python release and on top of that I would like to not have to test and support with older versions.
If at all possible, I'd like 3.6 to be the minimum version to support.

Okay I git pulled and all exports are now failing., I then updated to 3.7 which didn't have any effect away because I had /usr/bin/python3 -> pythong 3.4, changed the link to point to 3.7 but then complained about missing package so tried to run pip but more problems, please see below

ubuntu@ip-172-31-39-147:/code/discogs-xml2db$ sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 5, in
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1479, in
register_loader_type(importlib_bootstrap.SourceFileLoader, DefaultProvider)
AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap' has no attribute 'SourceFileLoader'
ubuntu@ip-172-31-39-147:/code/discogs-xml2db$ python3 run.py --export artist csv-dir
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "run.py", line 18, in
from discogsxml2db.exporter import main
File "/home/ubuntu/code/discogs-xml2db/discogsxml2db/exporter.py", line 8, in
from tqdm import tqdm
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tqdm'
ubuntu@ip-172-31-39-147:/code/discogs-xml2db$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python3-pip is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
ubuntu@ip-172-31-39-147:/code/discogs-xml2db$ sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 5, in
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1479, in
register_loader_type(importlib_bootstrap.SourceFileLoader, DefaultProvider)
AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap' has no attribute 'SourceFileLoader'
ubuntu@ip-172-31-39-147:~/code/discogs-xml2db$

It is important to note here:
a> I am not a python developer/user
b> new users of this library will pick it because of what it does not because written in python so may not be used to python either.
c> It should be easy to setup the python part for all users, not just those knowledgeable about python

@ijabz - your points are fair and I will try to account for them.

That being said, the minimum to expect is a working Python 3.6 installation and that includes a functioning pip installer.

I will try to prepare a step by step document for running this project and make use of pyenv as a way to insulate against system python.

Meanwhile, I have created a series of tests that extract a sample of 1,000 records of each of artists, labels, master, records and validate them. The tests pass on Ubuntu latest and Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 so I am going to assume this is PR is ready for the prime time.

Im happy to upgrade 'System Python' to 3.6, I dont need to have multiple Pythons running I just dont understand what is wrong with my Python setup.

@ijabz maybe this will help? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53407801/how-can-i-adjust-pip3-using-python3-6-not-python3-4-on-ubuntu-14-04

Alternatively, if python3 -V reports 3.6, then you could try python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt (or sudo that).

FYI I set up a new Ubuntu machine and this came with Python 3.6.9 and now discogs-xml2db is working.