Shashwat Anand wrote:
I wanted to use dictionary in my OSX terminal.
So I wrote a function dict() in my ~/.bash_profile
dict () {
python2.5 -c 'import sys, DictionaryServices; word = "
".join(sys.argv[1:]); print DictionaryServices.DCSCopyTextDefinition(None,
word, (0, len(word)))' $@
}
here is the output:
Shashwat-Anands-MacBook-Pro:Desktop l0nwlf$ dict lone wolf
noun
a person who prefers to act or be alone.
The question is why not :
DictionaryServices.DCSCopyTextDefinition(None, word, (0, len(word))) works
with python2.6 ?
Is DictionaryService module not available for python2.6 ?
Here is the stack-trace:
Shashwat-Anands-MacBook-Pro:Desktop l0nwlf$ python
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jul 7 2009, 23:51:51)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import DictionaryServices
word = "lone wolf"
DictionaryServices.DCSCopyTextDefinition(None, word, (0, len(word)))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IndexError: NSRangeException - *** -[OC_PythonString
_createSubstringWithRange:]: Range or index out of bounds
Ofcourse it doesnt work with python2.7 too. Is this OSX specific issue ? Can
I make it work with my compiled version of python ? Is there any workaround
?
Are you thinking of this?
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyobjc-framework-DictionaryServices/2.2
HTH.
Mark Lawrence
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