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smarnach / pyexiftool

a Python library to communicate with an instance of Phil Harvey's excellent ExifTool command-line application.
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Generic exiftool parameters -G and -n are hidden #30

Open nitmws opened 4 years ago

nitmws commented 4 years ago

The functions execute(*params) and execute_json(*params) allow to set exiftool parameters. Unfortunately the documentation of both functions doesn't mention that two exiftool parameters are set in a generic way (with the -common_args parameter as a kind of prefix): -G and -n (see the start(self) function of the Exiftool class). The confusing issue is: this presetting of -G overrides other settings of group families in the params of the two execute functions, like -G1 to get more granular group names of the tags. Adding -G1 to the params does not show the exiftool family 1 group names of the tags. And the why is not documented.

sylikc commented 3 years ago

I'll work on some of this documentation when re-working the class https://github.com/sylikc/pyexiftool/discussions/10