Note: This project is working in progress.
zdict is a CLI dictionay framework mainly focus on any kind of online dictionary. This project originly forked from https://github.com/chenpc/ydict, which is a CLI tool for the Yahoo! online dictionary. After heavily refactoring the original project including:
- Change from Python 2 to Python 3
- Focus on being a flexible framework for any kind online dicitionaries, not only just a CLI tool for querying Yahoo! online dictionay.
- Based on an open source project skeleton.
So, we decided to create a new project.
from PyPi :
pip install zdictfrom GitHub :
pip install git+https://github.com/zdict/zdict.gitusage: zdict [-h] [-v] [-d] [-t QUERY_TIMEOUT] [-j [JOBS]] [-sp] [-su]
[-dt jisho,yahoo,urban,moe,spanish,all] [-ld] [-V] [-c]
[--dump [PATTERN]] [-D]
[word [word ...]]
positional arguments:
word Words for searching its translation
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
-d, --disable-db-cache
Temporarily not using the result from db cache. (still
save the result into db)
-t QUERY_TIMEOUT, --query-timeout QUERY_TIMEOUT
Set timeout for every query. default is 5 seconds.
-j [JOBS], --jobs [JOBS]
Allow N jobs at once. Do not pass any argument to use
the number of CPUs in the system.
-sp, --show-provider Show the dictionary provider of the queried word
-su, --show-url Show the url of the queried word
-dt jisho,yahoo,urban,moe,spanish,all, --dict jisho,yahoo,urban,moe,spanish,all
Must be seperated by comma and no spaces after each
comma. Choose the dictionary you want. (default:
yahoo) Use 'all' for qureying all dictionaries. If
'all' or more than 1 dictionaries been chosen, --show-
provider will be set to True in order to provide more
understandable output.
-ld, --list-dicts Show currently supported dictionaries.
-V, --verbose Show more information for the queried word. (If the
chosen dictionary have implemented verbose related
functions)
-c, --force-color Force color printing (zdict automatically disable
color printing when output is not a tty, use this
option to force color printing)
--dump [PATTERN] Dump the querying history, can be filtered with regex
-D, --debug Print raw html prettified by BeautifulSoup for
debugging.- Normal Mode
zdict hello
- Interactive Mode
zdict
During development, you can install our project as editable. If you use virtualenv, you may want to create a new enviroment for `zdict`:
$ git clone https://github.com/zdict/zdict.git
$ cd zdict
$ pip install -e .Once you installed it with the command above, just execute zdict after modification. Don't need to install it again.
We use py.test:
$ pip install pytest pytest-cov coverage
$ python setup.py testor:
$ py.testAfter runing testing, we will get a coverage report in html. We can browse around it:
$ cd htmlcov
$ python -m http.serverAlso, there is some configs for py.test in setup.cfg. Change it if you need.
py.test can prompt pdb shell when your test case failed:
$ python setup.py test -a "--pdb"or:
$ py.test --pdbFeel free to send a bug report to https://github.com/zdict/zdict/issues. Please attach the error message and describe how to reproduce the bug. PR is also welcome.
Please use the -d/--disable-db-cache option to query before sending the bug report. Sometimes we modify the data schema in database for a dictionary, but the default dictionary query of zdict uses the cache in the database which may be stored within an old schema. This might cause an error while showing the result. Just use the -d/--disable-db-cache to update the cache in database.