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+"""
+Babelfish - go out to babelfish and translate sentences
+Copyright (C) 2012  Brian S. Stephan
+
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+"""
+
+import re
+import urllib2
+from urllib import urlencode
+
+from extlib import irclib
+
+from Module import Module
+
+class Babelfish(Module):
+
+    """Class that translates text via Babelfish.
+
+    http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
+    """
+
+    def do(self, connection, event, nick, userhost, what, admin_unlocked):
+        """Handle IRC input."""
+
+        match = re.search('^!translate\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)$', what)
+        print(what)
+        if match:
+            print('match')
+            fromlang = match.group(1)
+            tolang = match.group(2)
+            text = match.group(3)
+
+            return self.reply(connection, event, self.translate(fromlang, tolang, text))
+
+    def translate(self, fromlang, tolang, text):
+
+        """Translate text from fromlang to tolang, assuming it's a valid pair."""
+
+        langpair = '%s_%s' % (fromlang, tolang)
+
+        # do some text conversion
+        text = text.replace('<', '< ')      # babelfish blows up on e.g. <text> but < text> is fine
+
+        url = 'http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt'
+        params = urlencode({'ei':'UTF-8', 'doit':'done', 'fr':'bf-home', 'intl':'1', 'tt':'urltext',
+                            'trtext':text, 'lp':langpair})
+        req = urllib2.Request(url, params)
+        req.add_header('Accept-Charset', 'UTF-8,*;q=0.5')
+        res = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+        content = res.read()
+        start_idx = content.find('<input type="hidden" name="p" value="')+37
+        if start_idx > 0:
+            end_idx = content.find('"', start_idx)
+            translation = content[start_idx:end_idx]
+
+            # do some text conversion
+            translation = translation.replace('&quot;', '"')
+            translation = translation.replace('&amp;', '&')
+            translation = translation.replace('&lt;', '<')
+            translation = translation.replace('&gt;', '>')
+            translation = translation.replace('&#039;', '\'')
+            translation = text.replace('< ', '<')   # crappy attempt at undoing the safety above
+
+            return translation
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    babelfish = Babelfish(None, None, None)
+    print('\'' + babelfish.translate('en', 'ja', '<bss>') + '\'')
+
+# vi:tabstop=4:expandtab:autoindent
+# kate: indent-mode python;indent-width 4;replace-tabs on;