from Dictionary import default_language, dictionary_collection from settings import language '''Looks up a phrase in a given dictionary-collection and returns the translated phrase''' def translate(phrase, target_lang = language, dictionary_collection = dictionary_collection) : dictionary = find_dictionary(phrase, dictionary_collection) if dictionary == None: return phrase if target_lang in dictionary.keys(): return dictionary[target_lang] elif '_' in target_lang and target_lang.split('_')[0] in dictionary.keys(): return dictionary[target_lang.split('_')[0]] else: return dictionary[default_language] def find_dictionary(phrase, dictionary_collection = dictionary_collection): for dictionary in dictionary_collection: if phrase in dictionary.values(): return dictionary return None