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I have a script to create a book from the database of Gramps. After an update to Gramps 4.1 (I have now 4.2.1), the place have a hierarchical place structure. How can I retrieve the birth place now with python 3?

My legacy code was:

            birth = self.database.get_event_from_handle(birth_ref.ref)
            place_handle = birth.get_place_handle()
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  • I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's asking about coding not family history or genealogy. Might be better placed on StackOverflow?
    – user104
    Dec 26, 2015 at 14:33
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    This is coding, but Gramps is one of the most popular open source genealogy programs, and Python is easy to learn.
    – Doug Blank
    Dec 26, 2015 at 16:17
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    Just because something is easy to learn doesn''t make it on-topic here. I could reach you to boil an egg in a few minutes but we wouldn't let you ask for cookery instructions here. @DougBlank
    – user104
    Dec 27, 2015 at 8:38
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    My point in ease of coding was that editing code in Gramps is about as complicated as editing a configuration file in any genealogy program. And it might make a nice example (as this short two-line code demonstrates) for people to learn that they can easily write scripts to manage their genealogical data.
    – Doug Blank
    Dec 27, 2015 at 13:03

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You can look up a place, given a place handle:

place = db.get_place_from_handle(place_handle)
print(place.name.value)
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