Conceptpower API 
A very simple library for querying a Conceptpower REST API.
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Installation
The conceptpower-api package is available via PyPI.
$ pip install conceptpower-apiUsage
Search for a Concept.
>>> import conceptpower as cp
>>> cp.search('Bradshaw')
[{'conceptList': 'Persons',
'description': 'Plant ecologist',
'id': 'http://www.digitalhps.org/concepts/066efc74-8710-4a1f-9111-3a27d880438e',
'lemma': 'Anthony David Bradshaw (1926-2008)',
'pos': 'noun',
'type': 'E21 Person'},
{'conceptList': 'Persons',
'description': 'Botanist at the University of Exeter',
'id': 'http://www.digitalhps.org/concepts/CONe5b55803-1ef6-4abe-b81c-1493e97421df',
'lemma': 'Margaret E. Bradshaw',
'pos': 'noun',
'type': 'E21 Person'},
{'conceptList': 'Publications',
'description': 'Bradshaw, Anthony David. 1965. "The evolutionary significance of phenotypic plasticity in plants." Advances in Genetics 13: 115-155.',
'id': 'http://www.digitalhps.org/concepts/CON76832db2-7abb-4c77-b08e-239017b6a585',
'lemma': 'Bradshaw 1965',
'pos': 'noun',
'type': 'E28 Conceptual Object '},
]Get a Concept by URI.
>>> import conceptpower as cp
>>> cp.get('http://www.digitalhps.org/concepts/CON536b243d-3c71-4a5c-ab79-3c7f12765b3f')
{'conceptList': 'Persons',
'description': 'A professor at the Cambridge Botany School',
'id': 'http://www.digitalhps.org/concepts/CON536b243d-3c71-4a5c-ab79-3c7f12765b3f',
'lemma': 'Sir Harry Godwin',
'pos': 'noun',
'type': 'E21 Person',
'type_id': '986a7cc9-c0c1-4720-b344-853f08c136ab',
'type_uri': 'http://www.digitalhps.org/types/TYPE_986a7cc9-c0c1-4720-b344-853f08c136ab'}Set namespace and endpoint by passing them as keyword arguments...
>>> cp.search('Bradshaw', endpoint='http://cp.myhost.com/rest/',
... namespace='{http://mynamspace/}')...or by defining them in a subclass.
>>> from conceptpower import Conceptpower
>>> class CustomConceptpower(Conceptpower):
... endpoint = 'http://cp.myhost.com/rest/'
... namespace = '{http://mynamspace/}'
>>> cp = CustomConceptpower()
>>> cp.search('Bradshaw')License
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