There’s a typo in the “This is a pen” example; the last line should be “msmt.translate()”, not “msmt_display.translate()”.

I’ll fix the post accordingly.

As far as Hindi is concerned, I grabbed some text from http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/ this morning, and it seems to work:


>>> import msmt
>>> token = msmt.get_access_token()
>>> msmt.translate(token, 'ओबामा ने गिनाई चुनौतियां', 'en', 'hi')
'Obama has another milestone challenges'


I tried to use your module for translating hindi (‘hi’) characters to english, but I couldn’t figure out how to work with the unicode -> utf-8 -> unicode conversions.

Could you post a full example of how your worked with feeding unicode characters to your module, then processed the returned data?

Also, msmt_display.translate didn’t work for me. I guess I need to instantiate your module first right?

Cheers

Thank you for catching that; dates.py is a module I wrote myself, to handle some basic date functions, and is not part of the built-in libraries.

I’ve updated the gist so that it will work in a standard python distribution, without requiring my dates.py file.

The function in question, by the way, is just for producing a human-readable timestamp in the event of an error; it’s not really necessary for using the translation functions.