main.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
from sparql import DBpediaEndpoint
    
def main ():
    s = DBpediaEndpoint()
    resource_uri = "http://dbpedia.org/resource/Foobar"
    
    results = s.query("""
        SELECT ?o
        WHERE { <%s> dbpedia-owl:abstract ?o .
        FILTER(langMatches(lang(?o), "EN")) }
    """ % resource_uri)
    abstract = results[0]["o"]["value"]
    print abstract

    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        main()
        sys.exit(0)
    except KeyboardInterrupt, e: # Ctrl-C
        raise e