wolffd@0: function [tags, tag_weight] = fm_retrieve_artist_similarity(artist1,artist2)
wolffd@0: %[tags, tag_weight] = fm_get_artist_tags(artist_name)
wolffd@0: %
wolffd@0: % returns last.fm artist tags and tag weights for given artist
wolffd@0: % this uses a lastpy python script to handle the REST data exchange
wolffd@0: 
wolffd@0: % call python function
wolffd@0: tagstr = python('fm_retrieve_artist_similarity.py', artist1, artist2)
wolffd@0: 
wolffd@0: % parse text function output
wolffd@0: %tags = textscan(tagstr,'%s %d','Delimiter',',');
wolffd@0: %tag_weight = tags{2};
wolffd@0: %tags = tags{1};