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Sun. Aug. 13th, 2006 10:50 PM

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ASmith

google | python | Text | translation

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Translates text from using translate.google.com

#Author:  Keven Dangoor

#Project: TurboGears

#File:  i18n/utils.py

def google_translate(from_lang, to_lang, text):

  params = urllib.urlencode({"langpair":"%s|%s" %(from_lang, to_lang), "text":text,"ie":"UTF8", "oe":"UTF8"})

  conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("translate.google.com")

  conn.request("POST", "/translate_t", params)

  resp = conn.getresponse()

  s = resp.read()

  conn.close()

 match = re.compile('<textarea name=q.*?>(.*?)</textarea>',re.DOTALL).search(s)

 data = match.groups()[0]

 return unicode(data, "utf-8").strip()