FactorDB CLI (and Python library)

The FactorDB is the database to store known factorizations for any number. This tool can use on your command line. And also you can use this tool with python 2 & 3 scripts.

Installation

The easiest way to install factordb-pycli is to use pip:

$ pip install factordb-pycli

or, if you are not installing in a virtualenv:

$ sudo pip install factordb-pycli

If you have the factordb-pycli installed and want to upgrade to the latest version you can run:

$ pip install --upgrade factordb-pycli

Getting Started

CLI

If you want to know the result of factorization of 16, you should type like this:

$ factordb 16

Then, you can get the answer from factordb.com.

$ factordb 16
2 2 2 2

If you want to know more detail of result, you can get an answer of JSON format.

$ factordb --json 16
{"id": "http://factordb.com/?id=2", "status": "FF", "factors": [2, 2, 2, 2]}

Library usage

If you want to use this script with Python, you should type import statement on your code like this:

from factordb.factordb import FactorDB

Then, you can get the answer with Python lists.

In [1]: from factordb.factordb import FactorDB

In [2]: f = FactorDB(16)

In [3]: f.get_factor_list()
Out[3]: []

In [4]: f.connect()
Out[4]: <Response [200]>

In [5]: f.get_factor_list()
Out[5]: [2, 2, 2, 2]

In [6]: f.get_factor_from_api()
Out[6]: [['2', 4]]

In [7]: f.get_status()
Out[7]: 'FF'

License

MIT