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From: Mark Lawrence on 17 Mar 2010 04:56 Shashwat Anand wrote: > I wanted to use dictionary in my OSX terminal. > So I wrote a function dict() in my ~/.bash_profile > > dict () { > python2.5 -c 'import sys, DictionaryServices; word = " > ".join(sys.argv[1:]); print DictionaryServices.DCSCopyTextDefinition(None, > word, (0, len(word)))' $@ > } > > here is the output: > > Shashwat-Anands-MacBook-Pro:Desktop l0nwlf$ dict lone wolf > noun > a person who prefers to act or be alone. > > The question is why not : > DictionaryServices.DCSCopyTextDefinition(None, word, (0, len(word))) works > with python2.6 ? > Is DictionaryService module not available for python2.6 ? > > Here is the stack-trace: > > Shashwat-Anands-MacBook-Pro:Desktop l0nwlf$ python > Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jul 7 2009, 23:51:51) > [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> import DictionaryServices >>>> word = "lone wolf" >>>> DictionaryServices.DCSCopyTextDefinition(None, word, (0, len(word))) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > IndexError: NSRangeException - *** -[OC_PythonString > _createSubstringWithRange:]: Range or index out of bounds > > Ofcourse it doesnt work with python2.7 too. Is this OSX specific issue ? Can > I make it work with my compiled version of python ? Is there any workaround > ? > > Are you thinking of this? http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyobjc-framework-DictionaryServices/2.2 HTH. Mark Lawrence
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