Searching for open bugs in a launchpad project

The launchpad API docs are OMG terrible, and it took me way too long to work out how to do this, so I thought I’d document it for later. Here’s how you list all the open bugs in a launchpad project using the API:

#!/usr/bin/python

import argparse
import os

from launchpadlib import launchpad

LP_INSTANCE = 'production'
CACHE_DIR = os.path.expanduser('~/.launchpadlib/cache/')

def main(username, project):
    lp = launchpad.Launchpad.login_with(username, LP_INSTANCE, CACHE_DIR)
    for bug in lp.projects[project].searchTasks(status=["New",
                                                        "Incomplete",
                                                        "Confirmed",
                                                        "Triaged",
                                                        "In Progress"]):
        print bug

if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Fetch bugs from launchpad')
    parser.add_argument('--username')
    parser.add_argument('--project')
    args = parser.parse_args()

    main(args.username, args.project)