[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Add real-life examples of Python RPM (PR #3177)

[Frank Dana]

@ferdnyc commented on this pull request.



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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+# Query a single installed package by its name.
+# A Python equivalent for `rpm -q hello`
+
+import rpm
+
+name = "hello"
+ts = rpm.TransactionSet()
+mi = ts.dbMatch("name", name)
+hdr = next(mi, None)
+if hdr:

Actually, I take that back. Because `mi` is an iterator, not a list, it will become `False` when exhausted, so that code will always print "No results" at the end of the loop. My mistake.

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