OK this is actually starting to make sense :-) Here is what I think is
happening:
You get different results in the IDE and the console because they are using
different encodings. The IDE is using utf-8 so the params are encoded in utf-8.
The console is using latin-1 and you get encoded latin-1 params.
When you use babelfish from the browser it gets a page in utf-8 and sends the
parameters back the same way, but probably with a header saying it is utf-8.
When you use urllib you don't tell it the encoding so it is assuming latin-1,
that's why the interpreter version works.
So in your GUI version if you get utf-8 from the GUI, you can convert it to
latin-1 by
phrase.decode('utf-8').encode('latin-1') as long as your text can be expressed
in latin-1. If you need utf-8 then you have to figure out how to tell babelfish
that you are sending utf-8.
Kent
PS please reply to the list not to me personally.
Jorge Louis de Castro wrote:
> Thanks again,
>
> I'm sorry to be such a PITB but this is driving me insane! the code
> below easily connects to babelfish and returns a translated string.
>
> __where = [ re.compile(r'name=\"q\">([^<]*)'),
> re.compile(r'td bgcolor=white>([^<]*)'),
> re.compile(r'td bgcolor=white class=s><div
> style=padding:10px;>([^<]*)'),
> re.compile(r'<\/strong><br>([^<]*)')
>
> def clean(text):
> return ' '.join(string.replace(text.strip(), "\n", ' ').split())
>
> def translateByCode(phrase, from_code, to_code):
> phrase = clean(phrase)
> params = urllib.urlencode( { 'BabelFishFrontPage' : 'yes',
> 'doit' : 'done',
> 'urltext' : phrase,
> 'lp' : from_code + '_' + to_code } )
> print "URL encoding ", params
> try:
> response =
> urllib.urlopen('http://world.altavista.com/babelfish/tr', params)
> except IOError, what:
> print "ERRROR TRANSLATING ", 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: print "ERROR MATCHING"
> return clean(match.group(1))
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> print translateByCode('então', 'pt', 'en')
>
> If I run this through the Run option on the IDE I get the following output:
>
> URL encoding doit=done&urltext=ent%C3%A3o&BabelFishFrontPage=yes&lp=pt_en
> então
> então
>
> If I import this module on the interpreter and then call
>
> print translateByCode('então', 'en', 'pt')
>
> I get:
>
> URL encoding doit=done&urltext=ent%E3o&BabelFishFrontPage=yes&lp=pt_en
> then
> then
>
> Now the urllib encoding of the urltext IS different ("ent%C3%A3o" VS
> "ent%E3o") even though I'm passing the same stuff!
> And this works fine except when I use special characters and I don't
> know how to use the utf-8 encoding to get this working -i know altavista
> uses utf-8 because they also translate chinese.
>
> Thanks again and sorry for the blurb but i ran out of solutions for this
> one.
>
>
>
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