### translate a given text from one language to another

### using googletranslator

import urllib

import simplejson as json

class TranslateFailed(Exception):

pass

class UNknownWxception(Exception):

pass

class AristideBot(object):

URI="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate"

default={'v':'1.0'}

def __init(self):

return

def build_request(self,args):

args.update({

'langpair':'%s%%7C%s'%(self.src,self.to),

'q':urllib.quote_plus(self.phrase),

})

return '%s' %('&'.join(['%s=%s' %(k,v) for (k,v) in args.iteritems()]))

def retrieveAnswer(self,response):

if response['responseStatus'] == 200:

return response['responseData']['translatedText']

else:

return self.phrase

def translate(self,src,to,phrase):

self.src,self.to,self.phrase = src,to,phrase

args=self.default.copy()

return self.retrieveAnswer(json.load(urllib.FancyURLopener().open('%s?%s' % (self.URI,self.build_request(args)))))

######## Usage: tranlate form french to english

translator=AristideBot()

text="bonjour Aristide"

print translator.translate('fr','en',text)