# babelizer.py - API for simple access to babelfish.altavista.com.

#                Requires python 2.0 or better.

#

# See it in use at http://babel.MrFeinberg.com/

"""API for simple access to babelfish.altavista.com.

Summary:

    import babelizer

	print ' '.join(babelizer.available_languages)

    print babelizer.translate( 'How much is that doggie in the window?',

		                       'English', 'French' )

    def babel_callback(phrase):

		print phrase

		sys.stdout.flush()

	babelizer.babelize( 'I love a reigning knight.',

						'English', 'German',

						callback = babel_callback )

available_languages

    A list of languages available for use with babelfish.

translate( phrase, from_lang, to_lang )

    Uses babelfish to translate phrase from from_lang to to_lang.

babelize(phrase, from_lang, through_lang, limit = 12, callback = None)

    Uses babelfish to translate back and forth between from_lang and

    through_lang until either no more changes occur in translation or

    limit iterations have been reached, whichever comes first.  Takes

    an optional callback function which should receive a single

    parameter, being the next translation.  Without the callback

    returns a list of successive translations.

It's only guaranteed to work if 'english' is one of the two languages

given to either of the translation methods.

Both translation methods throw exceptions which are all subclasses of

BabelizerError.  They include

LanguageNotAvailableError

    Thrown on an attempt to use an unknown language.

BabelfishChangedError

    Thrown when babelfish.altavista.com changes some detail of their

    layout, and babelizer can no longer parse the results or submit

    the correct form (a not infrequent occurance).

BabelizerIOError

    Thrown for various networking and IO errors.

Version: $Id: babelizer.py,v 1.1.1.1 2005/09/29 21:38:49 mikem Exp $

Author: Jonathan Feinberg <jdf@pobox.com>

"""

import re, string, urllib

"""

Various patterns I have encountered in looking for the babelfish result.

We try each of them in turn, based on the relative number of times I've

seen each of these patterns.  $1.00 to anyone who can provide a heuristic

for knowing which one to use.   This includes AltaVista employees.

"""

            re.compile(r'td bgcolor=white>([^<]*)'),

            re.compile(r'<\/strong><br>([^<]*)'),

]

__languages = { 'english'    : 'en',

                'french'     : 'fr',

                'spanish'    : 'es',

                'german'     : 'de',

                'italian'    : 'it',

                'portuguese' : 'pt',

                'russian'    : 'ru',

                'korean'     : 'ko',

                'chinese'    : 'zh',

                'japanese'   : 'ja',

                'en'         : 'en',

                'fr'         : 'fr',

                'es'         : 'es',

                'de'         : 'de',

                'it'         : 'it',

                'pt'         : 'pt',

                'ru'         : 'ru',

                'ko'         : 'ko',

                'zh'         : 'zh',

                'ja'         : 'ja',

           }

"""

  All of the available language names.

"""

available_languages = [ x.title() for x in __languages.keys() ]

"""

  Calling translate() or babelize() can raise a BabelizerError

"""

class BabelizerError(Exception):

    pass

class LanguageNotAvailableError(BabelizerError):

    pass

class BabelfishChangedError(BabelizerError):

    pass

class BabelizerIOError(BabelizerError):

    pass

def clean(text):

    return ' '.join(string.replace(text.strip(), "\n", ' ').split())

    phrase = clean(phrase)

    try:

        from_code = __languages[from_lang.lower()]

        to_code = __languages[to_lang.lower()]

    except KeyError, lang:

        raise LanguageNotAvailableError(lang)

                                 'tt' : 'urltext',

                                 'intl' : '1',

                                 'lp' : from_code + '_' + to_code } )

    try:

    except IOError, what:

        raise BabelizerIOError("Couldn't talk to server: %s" % what)

    except:

        print "Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()[0]

    html = response.read()

    for regex in __where:

        match = regex.search(html)

        if match: break

    if not match: raise BabelfishChangedError("Can't recognize translated string.")

    return clean(match.group(1))

def babelize(phrase, from_language, through_language, limit = 12, callback = None):

    phrase = clean(phrase)

    seen = { phrase: 1 }

    if callback:

        callback(phrase)

    else:

        results = [ phrase ]

    flip = { from_language: through_language, through_language: from_language }

    next = from_language

    for i in range(limit):

        if seen.has_key(phrase): break

        seen[phrase] = 1

        if callback:

            callback(phrase)

        else:

            results.append(phrase)

        next = flip[next]

    if not callback: return results

if __name__ == '__main__':

    import sys

    def printer(x):

        print x

        sys.stdout.flush();

    babelize("I won't take that sort of treatment from you, or from your doggie!",

             'english', 'french', callback = printer)