Quick English to Portuguese 1-word Translator

lucasdeoliveira (Lucas de Oliveira) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:42:18 GMT

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This is a very simple python code that access babylon translator. For now It just translates 1-word from english to portuguese. It's probably a bit buggy also, because I'm a python noob.



import urllib2, sys, re



def translate(word, lang):

	print "WORD: "+word

	print "TRANSLATION TO LANGUAGE: "+lang

	print "-----------------------------------"

	sock = urllib2.urlopen("http://online.babylon.com/cgi-bin/trans.cgi?layout=txt&lang=ptg&word="+word)

	htmlsource = sock.read()

	sock.close()



	#Replacing some specific html tags for \n in order to format the final output:

	htmlsource = htmlsource.replace("","\n");

	htmlsource = htmlsource.replace("
","\n");

	htmlsource = htmlsource.replace("
","\n");

	htmlsource = htmlsource.replace("
","");

	htmlsource = htmlsource.replace("
","");

	htmlsource = htmlsource.split(word)[1]



	#Removing unwanted html tags (acctually all the tags):

	iter = re.finditer(r'<.*?>',htmlsource)

	for m in iter:

		htmlsource = htmlsource.replace(m.string[m.start():m.end()],"")



	#More output formating

	tags = htmlsource.split("\n");

	output = ""

	for str in tags:

		output += str.strip()+"\n"



	#tweak this up for your language

	output = output.decode("iso-8859-1").encode("utf-8")	

	print output



try:

	word = sys.argv[1]

	lang = sys.argv[2]

	translate(word,"")



except(IndexError):

	if(word.__len__() != 0):

		translate(word, "")

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Quick English to Portuguese 1-word Translator