I wanted to use dictionary in my OSX terminal. So I wrote a function dict() in my ~/.bash_profile
dict () { python2.5 -c 'import sys, DictionaryServices; word = " ".join(sys.argv[1:]); print DictionaryServices.DCSCopyTextDefinition(None, word, (0, len(word)))' $@ } here is the output: Shashwat-Anands-MacBook-Pro:Desktop l0nwlf$ dict lone wolf noun a person who prefers to act or be alone. The question is why not : DictionaryServices.DCSCopyTextDefinition(None, word, (0, len(word))) works with python2.6 ? Is DictionaryService module not available for python2.6 ? Here is the stack-trace: Shashwat-Anands-MacBook-Pro:Desktop l0nwlf$ python Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jul 7 2009, 23:51:51) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import DictionaryServices >>> word = "lone wolf" >>> DictionaryServices.DCSCopyTextDefinition(None, word, (0, len(word))) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> IndexError: NSRangeException - *** -[OC_PythonString _createSubstringWithRange:]: Range or index out of bounds >>> Ofcourse it doesnt work with python2.7 too. Is this OSX specific issue ? Can I make it work with my compiled version of python ? Is there any workaround ?
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