py-morse

A morse code class object for translation between morse and alphanumeric encodings, which supports both text and audio message representation.

The Morse class does the following:

• Reads in string of words or morse code and allows for translation between the two.
• Provides a transmit function to play the audio morse code version of the message.
• Lets you easily print the words and corresponding morse side by side.
• mac/linux only: Uses the unix say command to read the message out loud.

Limitations:

• If the message is input as a word, all punctuation will be removed.
• The 'stop' to indicate the end of a sentence is not yet coded in.
  • This could be a useful addition if made to be optional.
• The speak command is performed using the mac/linux 'say' command so not usable on windows.

Morse syntax

• For use in this class, letters in a given word are separated by a space, and words are separated by a forward slash / character. Dots are . periods and dashes are - hyphens.
• so the string for 'sos' would be '... --- ...' and the string for 'sos cam' would be ... --- ... / -.-. .- --'

How to use it

The Morse class can be used in several different ways after it is first imported into the current session via from morse import Morse. An empty class instance can initiated, or the data can be read in during initiation using the morse= or words= arguments (only one of the two can be passed in at a time). example_code.py provides some additional example uses cases.

morse_test = Morse() # an empty class message that can be passed data later

#OR

morse_test = Morse(words = 'This is a test')

morse_test = Morse(morse = '- .... .. ... / .. ... / .- / - . ... -')

Once the Morse class is instantiated, words or morse can be read in using the following function. Note if there is already a message stored in the class then the read function will overwrite it!

morse_test.read(morse = '- .... .. ... / .. ... / .- / - . ... -')

morse_test.read(words = 'This is a test')

Once you have read a message in to the class the morse and alphanumeric encodings of the message can respectively be called using the .morse and .words properties.

morse_test.morse

morse_test.words

When print is called on the object, it will return both encodings of the message

print(morse_test)

which will return:

message: this is a test
- .... .. ... / .. ... / .- / - . ... -

The class also contains methods for returning the corresponding audio for the morse (all platforms) and alphanumeric encodings (mac/linux).

morse_test.transmit() # returns the tones corresponding to the morse code

morse_test.speak() # this uses the unix say command to read the message 
#.speak() is mac/linux only... and you need to follow the instructions below to get it running on linux

Audio dependencies setup

The following must be installed in order to use the transmit function which plays back the morse code.

mac

brew install portaudio 
pip install pyaudio

windows

python -m pip install pyaudio

Linux

sudo apt-get install python-pyaudio python3-pyaudio

optional - to make the .speak() function work:

sudo apt-get install gnustep-gui-runtime

Other dependencies

You will need to have numpy installed as well (all platforms). pip install numpy