def translate(from_lang, to_lang, text):
params = urllib.urlencode({"babelfishfrontpage": "yes",
"doit": "done",
"urltext": text,
"lp": from_lang + "_" + to_lang})
try:
response = urllib.urlopen2("http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt", params)
except ioerror, e:
return "(error: %s)" % (e)
def get_man_page_synopsis(section, name):
stream = None
try:
stream = urllib.urlopen2(get_man_page(section, name))
page = stream.read()
match = re.match(r'.*<h2>Synopsis</h2>(.*)<h2>Description</h2>.*', page, flags = re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL)
if not match:
return None
synopsis = match.group(1)
synopsis = re.sub(r'<br\s*/?>', "\n", synopsis)
synopsis = re.sub(r'<[^>]*>', "", synopsis)
synopsis = synopsis.replace("<", "<")
synopsis = synopsis.replace(">", ">")
synopsis = synopsis.replace("&", "&")
return synopsis
except IOError:
return None
finally:
if stream:
stream.close()
