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Generic exiftool parameters -G and -n are hidden

Open nitmws opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments

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.

nitmws avatar Nov 29 '19 18:11 nitmws

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

sylikc avatar Mar 14 '21 18:03 sylikc