politweet-environment/bin/translate

#!/home/oresti/Documents/dev/politweet/politweet-environment/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import argparse
import sys
from googletrans import Translator

def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description='Python Google Translator as a command-line tool')
    parser.add_argument('text', help='The text you want to translate.')
    parser.add_argument('-d', '--dest', default='en',
        help='The destination language you want to translate. (Default: en)')
    parser.add_argument('-s', '--src', default='auto',
        help='The source language you want to translate. (Default: auto)')
    parser.add_argument('-c', '--detect', action='store_true', default=False,
        help='')
    args = parser.parse_args()
    translator = Translator()

    if args.detect:
        result = translator.detect(args.text)
        result = """
[{lang}, {confidence}] {text}
        """.strip().format(text=args.text,
            lang=result.lang, confidence=result.confidence)
        print(result)
        return

    result = translator.translate(args.text, dest=args.dest, src=args.src)
    result = u"""
[{src}] {original}
    ->
[{dest}] {text}
[pron.] {pronunciation}
    """.strip().format(src=result.src, dest=result.dest, original=result.origin,
                       text=result.text, pronunciation=result.pronunciation)
    print(result)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()