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Welcome to PyGlang, a python package for translating text with the Google Translation API!

How to say 'Hello'

import PyGlang

for language in PyGlang.GetLanguages().iterkeys():
    try:
        print language, PyGlang.Translate('Hello', fromLang='English', toLang=language)
     except PyGlang.TranslationError:
        print ''

By David Keegan With contributions from John Burnett.

Documentation

PyGlang

Translate text with the Google AJAX Language API

PyGlang.Translate(text[, fromLang[, toLang]])

• Use the google language api to translate the given text from one language to another.
• English is the default 'translate to' language, if no 'from language' is given google will guess what the language is.
• Example url: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?langpair=en|ru&q=hello&v=1.0
• text the text to translate
• fromLang the language to translate from
• toLang the language to translate to

PyGlang.Detect(text)

• Use the google language api to detect the language of the given text.
• Example url: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/detect?v=1.0&q=hello
• text the text to detect the language of

PyGlang.GetLanguageCode(language)

• Given a language name return the language code
• language the language name

PyGlang.GetLanguages()

• A dictionary of supported languages, where the language name is the key, and the language code is the value.
• This dictionary comes from the Languages.json file, but it is cached so the file is only read once.

TranslateDotStrings

Translate a .strings file from one language to another.

This script is designed to be a command line tool, the user passes in two .strings files. The first is the file to read and translate, and the second is the file to write to.

python TranslateDotStrings.py fromFilepath toFilepath

TranslateDotStrings.Translate(fromFilepath, toFilepath)

• Read a .strings file and localize it for the language of another .strings file.
• The language of each file is determined by the what 'lproj' directory they reside in.
• fromFilepath the file path of the .strings file to read and translate
• toFilepath the file path of the .strings file to write