Hi,
A dictionary (associative array of keys and values) seems a good datatype to
use.
vocab = {}
vocab[frenchword] = englishword
For instance:
>>> vocab = {"aimer": "love"}
>>> vocab
{'aimer': 'love'}
>>> vocab["parler"] = "speak"
>>> vocab
{'aimer': 'love', 'parler': 'speak'}
>>> for engword, frword in vocab.iteritems():
print "%s - %s" % (engword, frword)
aimer - love
parler - speak
But if one word has different meanings in the other language, you may need to
use a list of words as the values.
Cheers!!
Albert-Jan
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--- On Thu, 2/4/10, Owain Clarke <simb...@cooptel.net> wrote:
From: Owain Clarke <simb...@cooptel.net>
Subject: [Tutor] language aid
To: tutor@python.org
Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 11:43 AM
Hello, all.
I am a newcomer to Python, and I know that I have much learning to do before I
implement my idea, but I am working on the beginnings of a vocabulary building
program. This is how I am catching new words at the moment.
def newVocab(x,y):
"""
Add new word pair, English word second.
Words to be separated by ':' """
x.append(y)
I can follow this with
french = []
newVocab(french,"souris:mouse")
The idea is that eventually the user would be prompted to enter a french (or
whatever) word, and then to enter its English equivalent. The code would then
be responsible for adding the ":" storing all the words in a list which would
be written to a file, and recovering them as needed. Although i don't know how
at this point, I assume I can search the part of the string before the colon or
after, and thus set up vocabulary tests.
My question is, that if I proceed like this I will end up with a single list of
potentially several hundred strings of the form "frword:engword". In terms of
performance, is this a reasonable way to do it, or will the program
increasingly slow down?
All suggestions appreciated
Owain Clarke
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