On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Dax Bloom <bloom....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > In the framework of a project on evolutionary linguistics I wish to > have a program to process words and simulate the effect of sound > shift, for instance following the Rask's-Grimm's rule. I look to have > python take a dictionary file or a string input and replace the > consonants in it with the Grimm rule equivalent. For example: > bʰ → b → p → f > dʰ → d → t → θ > gʰ → g → k → x > gʷʰ → gʷ → kʷ → xʷ > If the dictionary file has the word "Abe" I want the program to > replace the letter b with f forming the word "Afe" and write the > result in a tabular file. How easy is it to find the python functions > to do that?
Tabular files: http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html Character substitution: (a) http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#string.maketrans and http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.translate (b) http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.replace In either case, learn about dicts: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#dict Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
