Allow to pass additional options to exiftool

smarnach / pyexiftool

a Python library to communicate with an instance of Phil Harvey's excellent ExifTool command-line application.

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Allow to pass additional options to exiftool #2

Open alexbruy opened 12 years ago

alexbruy commented 12 years ago

It would be very useful to allow pass additional parameters to exiftool. For example, currently if photos contains user-defined or simply unknown tags it is impossible to get this tags via pyexiftool get_metadata() method because this tags only extracted when exiftool is runned with option "-u"

smarnach commented 12 years ago

Valid point. As a hack, you can pass "-u" as one of the filenames to get_metadata_batch(). I'm currently working on the encoding issue you sent by mail; fixing that will also provide a nicer interface for passing custom parameters. Note that the interface will change with these fixes in place, and I will probably make a beta release on PyPI.