On May 9, 2:31 am, Trent Nelson <tr...@snakebite.org> wrote:
> > What are your favorites?
>
> I think I've posted this before, but I love my
> 3-lines-if-you-ignore-the-scaffolding language translator. Not because it's
> clever code -- quite the opposite, the code is dead simple -- but because it
> encompasses one of the things I love about Python the most: it gets shit done.
>
> In [1]: from translate import *
>
> In [2]: translate('French', 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
> dog.')
> Le renard brun rapide a sauté par-dessus le chien paresseux.
>
> In [3]: translate('German', 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
> dog.')
> Der schnelle braune Fuchs sprang über den faulen Hund.
>
> In [4]: translate('Spanish', 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
> dog.')
> El zorro marrón rápido saltó sobre el perro perezoso.
>
> translate.py:
>
> import sys
> from urllib import urlopen, urlencode
> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
>
> url = 'http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr'
> languages = {
> 'French' : 'en_fr',
> 'German' : 'en_de',
> 'Italian' : 'en_it',
> 'Spanish' : 'en_es',
> 'Russian' : 'en_ru',
> 'Portuguese': 'en_pt',
> 'Dutch' : 'en_nl',
> 'Japanese' : 'en_ja',
> }
>
> def translate(lang, text):
> kwds = { 'trtext' : text, 'lp' : languages[lang]}
> soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen(url, urlencode(kwds)))
> print soup.find('div', style='padding:10px;').string
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> translate(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])
That completely rocks! Thanks for the recipe.
Raymond
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