Google Translate In Terminal

I am currently trying to learn french, and just to make life a tad easier, i wrote a wrapper for google translate.

Because when do you not have a terminal handy?

(Psst. I have up a more updated version here)

	#!/usr/bin/python
	import urllib2
	import sys
	import argparse
	import json
	DEST_LANG="fr"
	SOURCE_LANG="en"
	def pull(phrase, source, dest):
	phrase = urllib2.quote(phrase)
	try:
	opener = urllib2.build_opener()
	opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0')]
	response = opener.open("http://translate.google.co.uk" + "/translate_a/t?client=webapp&sl=" + source + "&tl=" + dest + "&hl=en&sc=1&q=" + phrase)
	except urllib2.HTTPError, err:
	print "ERROR [" + err + "] Google says no"
	sys.exit(-1)
	except:
	print "ERROR [UNKNOWN] Google really says no"
	sys.exit(-2)
	return json.loads(response.read())
	def parse(reply):
	tran = ""
	for s in reply['sentences']:
	tran+=s['trans']
	return tran
	def main():
	parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='A command line wrapper for Google Translate')
	parser.add_argument('text', nargs='+', help='Profanities you would like to translate')
	parser.add_argument('-s', default=SOURCE_LANG, metavar="source_lang", help="Language you know")
	parser.add_argument('-d', default=DEST_LANG, metavar="dest_lang", help="Language you wish you knew")
	parser.add_argument('--switch', '-w', action='store_true', help="Switch the default languages")
	parser.add_argument('--log', '-l', metavar="log_file", help="Log to [file]")
	args = parser.parse_args()
	colour="\033[1;91m" # Red
	colour_default="\033[0;39m"
	original = ' '.join(args.text)
	if (args.switch is False):
	colour="\033[1;34m" # Blue
	args.s, args.d = args.d, args.s
	translation = parse(pull(original, args.d, args.s))
	if (args.log != None):
	try:
	fd = open(args.log, 'a')
	except:
	print "ERROR [FAILED TO OPEN FILE]"
	sys.exit(-3);
	fd.write(original + " -> " + translation + "\n")
	print colour + translation + colour_default
	if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()

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