Hi I need help trying to translate an English sentence to Spanish using a database given and also making the user continue to ask an English sentence until asked to be terminated using a given character.
Here is my code
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import string
db = [['dog', 'perro'], ['man', 'hombre'], ['woman', 'mujer'], ['house', 'casa'], ['eat',
'comer'], ['speak', 'hablar'], ['walk', 'caminar'], ['black', 'negro'], ['white', 'blanco'],
['large', 'grande'], ['fat', 'gordo'], ['skinny', 'flaca'], ['street', 'calle'], ['from', 'de'],
['to', 'a'], ['in', 'en'], ['the', 'el']]
def toSpanish2(x):
for i in range(len(string.split(x)): # for all the elements in x after converting the string to lists
for j in range(len(db)): # for all the elements in db
if string.split(x)[i]==db[j]: # if any element of x is equivalent to any element in the database
if db[j][0]==string.split(x)[i]: # if the 0th element = and element of i
return db[j][1] # return the 1st element in the list of db
if x == "null": # if x equals null
Break #then terminate the program
return string.join(x) #if one of the conditions are met, return the string that was converted into list form back into regular string form
x=raw_input("Please type an English Sentence:") # Make user ask for english sentence to be converted
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When I run the code on python it first asks me to type in a sentence, which I do, but using strings so that in can be converted to a list. However, once the english sentence has been implemented, nothing comes out. Can someone show me what the error is.
My friend has a different code but I can't understand it. He says it works but not properly. I don't understand how he came up with the x.split().
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import string
x=raw_input(" Please type an English sentence: ")
db = [['dog', 'perro'], ['man', 'hombre'], ['woman', 'mujer'], ['house', 'casa'], ['eat',
'comer'], ['speak', 'hablar'], ['walk', 'caminar'], ['black', 'negro'], ['white', 'blanco'],
['large', 'grande'], ['fat', 'gordo'], ['skinny', 'flaca'], ['street', 'calle'], ['from', 'de'],
['to', 'a'], ['in', 'en'], ['the', 'el']]
def toSpanish2(x):
sum=[]
for i in range (len(x.split())):
for j in range(len(db)):
if (x.split())[i] in db[j][0]:
db[j][0]=db[j][1]
sum.append(db[j][0])
return " ".join(sum)
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when he types : " the fat man fat"
it just produces el gordo hombre
it should say el gordo hombre gordo
Please any help would be gladly appreciated. |
Try to figure out what your code is doing and how it's different from what you thought it was doing. A common technique is to use print statements to output program's state as it runs, and comparing that against your expectations.