translating external files type thing

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/13/2021 4:53 PM, Avi Gross via Python-list wrote:
> https://translate.google.com/?sl=is&tl=en&op=translate
> 
> Or, you could do it the hard way.
> 
> Kidding aside, there may be a python module you can hand a file name or
> contents to and have it do much of the job using some API that may tap into
> the above Google resource.

For one chunk of text under 5000 chars, the website is easiest.

> Dan specifically suggested importing googletrans ...

The author reverse engineered the undocumented ticket used by the web 
page.  It will work until Google either bans one's IP address or 
disables googletrans by changing the protocol.  Since Google's paid 
service only charges for chars over 500_000 in a month, Google is likely 
better off leaving the protocol alone and only banning users who would 
actually pay if signed up.


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> From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+avigross=verizon.net at python.org> On
> Behalf Of Quentin Bock
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 3:16 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: translating external files type thing
> 
> okay, so I'm making a translating program, and I have files set to be
> translated (they're in Icelandic) and I want all of them to be read in
> English but I'm not sure how to open the files and translate them at the
> same time. I'm also not even sure how to translate an external file to
> English from another language.
> I can't show code for this because I don't know if it's possible to do what
> I'm asking.
> Hopefully, this question is understandable Thanks
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Terry Jan Reedy