Known Issues¶
- The
meta
method sometimes give a wrong result (this is due to errors on the chosen service), in alternative you could try one of the others services. - The
isbnlib
works internally with unicode, however this doesn’t solve errors of lost information due to bad encode/decode at the origin! - Periodically, agencies, issue new blocks of ISBNs. The
range of these blocks is on a database that
mask
uses. So it could happen, if you have a version ofisbnlib
that is too old,mask
doesn’t work for valid (recent) issued ISBNs. The solution? Update isbnlib often! - Calls to metadata services are cached by default. You can change that by setting
the cache to
None
, namelyregistry.set_cache(None)
.
Any issue that you would like to report, please do it at github or post a question on stackoverflow (with tag isbnlib).