# phrases
-Get Latin famous phrases in the terminal
-
-## Source of phrases
-There are currently 2239 phrases in the database, sourced from the Wikipedia page [List of Latin phrases (full)](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Latin_phrases_(full)&oldid=986793908)
+Latin famous phrases in the terminal
+## Source of famous phrases
Wikipedia contributors, "List of Latin phrases (full)," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Latin_phrases_(full)&oldid=986793908.
+There are currently 2239 famous phrases in the database
+
## Installation
`sudo make` to install.
`sudo make uninstall` to uninstall completely.
### Notes
- * If you want to regenerate the phrases.csv file with the `extract.py` script, then you need the BeautifulSoup Python module.
+ * If you want to generate a new phrases.csv file with the `extract.py` script, then you need the BeautifulSoup Python module.
* Tested and written on Python 3.9.0
## License
# Extract Latin famous phrases from wikipedia
# Armaan Bhojwani 2020
-from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
-import requests
+import argparse
+import sys
import csv
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
-def main():
- url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(full)'
- response = requests.get(url)
- html = response.content
-
- soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
- list_table = soup.find_all("table", attrs={"class":"wikitable"})
- with open('phrases.csv', 'w') as f:
+def main(args=sys.argv[1:]):
+ # Argument parsing
+ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+ description="Generate CSV file of Latin famous phrases from Wikipedia.")
+ parser.add_argument("-o", "--output",
+ default="phrases.csv",
+ help="set custom output file location")
+ args = parser.parse_args()
+
+ url = ('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Latin_phrases_('
+ 'full)&oldid=986793908')
+ soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).content, "html.parser")
+ i = 0 # For the phrase id
+
+ with open(args.output, 'w') as f:
writer = csv.writer(f, lineterminator="\n")
- i = 0 # For the phrase id
-
# write header
headers = ['id', 'Latin', 'English', 'Notes', 'Length']
writer.writerow(headers)
# iterate through the tables in the page
+ list_table = soup.find_all("table", attrs={"class":"wikitable"})
for table in list_table:
for row in table.tbody.find_all("tr", recursive=False):
cell = row.find_all("td", recursive=False)
# Armaan Bhojwani 2020
import argparse
+import csv
import random
import sys
-import csv
def main(args=sys.argv[1:]):
# Argument parsing
- parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Latin famous phrases in the terminal.")
- parser.add_argument("-e", "--english", action='store_true', help="Print the English translation.")
- parser.add_argument("-i", "--id", action='store_true', help="Print the id of the phrase.")
- parser.add_argument("-l", "--latin", action='store_true', help="Print the Latin phrase (default)")
- parser.add_argument("-m", "--min", default=0, type=int, help="Set the minimum length of the Latin phrase")
- parser.add_argument("-M", "--max", default=10000000, type=int, help="Set the maximum length of Latin phrase")
- parser.add_argument("-n", "--notes", action='store_true', help="Print any notes on phrase")
+ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+ description="Latin famous phrases in the terminal.")
+ parser.add_argument("-i", "--id",
+ action='store_true',
+ help="print the id of the phrase.")
+ parser.add_argument("-l", "--latin",
+ action='store_true',
+ help="print the Latin phrase (default)")
+ parser.add_argument("-e", "--english",
+ action='store_true',
+ help="print the English translation.")
+ parser.add_argument("-n", "--notes",
+ action='store_true',
+ help="print any notes on phrase")
+ parser.add_argument("-m", "--min",
+ default=0,
+ type=int,
+ help="set the minimum length of the Latin phrase")
+ parser.add_argument("-M", "--max",
+ default=10000000,
+ type=int,
+ help="set the maximum length of Latin phrase")
+ parser.add_argument("-p", "--num",
+ action='store_true',
+ help="print number of possibilities within constraints")
+ parser.add_argument("-f", "--file",
+ default="/usr/share/phrases/phrases.csv",
+ help="set the location of the phrase file")
args = parser.parse_args()
right_length = []
- # Find phrases of the right size
- with open('/usr/share/phrases/phrases.csv') as f:
+ # convert csv file into list
+ with open(args.file) as f:
reader = csv.reader(f)
- all_lines = list(reader)
next(reader, None) # skip header
- for row in all_lines:
- try:
- if args.max >= int(row[4]) >= args.min: # generate a shortlist of phrases of the right length
- right_length.append(row[0])
- except:
- pass # skip malformed rows
-
- try:
- chosen = int(right_length[random.randint(0, len(right_length) - 1)]) # choose a random id from the shortlist
- except:
- sys.exit("No phrase within the given parameters!")
-
- # Output as specified in flags
- if not (args.english or args.latin or args.notes):
- print(all_lines[chosen][1])
- else:
- if args.id:
- print(all_lines[chosen][1])
- if args.latin:
- print(all_lines[chosen][1])
- if args.english:
- print(all_lines[chosen][2])
- if args.notes:
- print(all_lines[chosen][3])
+ all_lines = list(reader)
+ f.close()
+
+ # iterate through all the phrases
+ for row in all_lines:
+ try: # generate a shortlist of phrases of the right length
+ if args.max >= int(row[4]) >= args.min:
+ right_length.append(row[0])
+ except: # skip malformed rows without exiting
+ pass
+
+ try: # choose a random id from the shortlist
+ chosen = int(right_length[random.randint(0, len(right_length) - 1)])
+ except:
+ sys.exit("No phrase within the given parameters!")
+
+ # Output as specified in flags
+ for row in all_lines:
+ if int(row[0]) == chosen:
+ if not (args.id
+ or args.latin
+ or args.english
+ or args.notes
+ or args.num):
+ print(row[1])
+ else:
+ if args.id:
+ print(row[1])
+ if args.latin:
+ print(row[1])
+ if args.english:
+ print(row[2])
+ if args.notes:
+ print(row[3])
+ if args.num:
+ print(len(right_length))
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()