Why strip the writer credit distinguisher?

[fshowalter]

Hey all,

Unless I'm reading the code wrong, it looks like:

cinemagoer/imdb/parser/http/utils.py

Line 125 in 7664f4b

if role_comment[-4:] == ' and':

Strips the "&" and "and" from the end of the notes from the writer credits. Via https://www.wga.org/uploadedfiles/credits/manuals/screenscredits_manual10.pdf these are important differentiators as:

When credit is accorded to a team of writers, an ampersand (&) shall be used between the writers’ names in the credit to denote a writing team. Use of the word “and” between writers’ names in a credit indicates that the writers did their work separately, one usually rewriting the other.

Happy to submit a fix, but wanted to know how you'd prefer it (i.e. separate parser, tweaked rule, tweak to person_builder, etc..)

[uyar]

It might or might not be a problem. It looks like it's stripping the trailing "and" which is not followed by anything. It might be that the parser rule causes the "and" between the writers to end up in the role field of the previous writer where it doesn't belong.