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#11 Oct 9th, 2009
The dictionary container is highly optimized (for search speed and memory usage) in Python, and is used internally by the interpreter.
You can create an 'english_word: french_word' dictionary and easily swap it to a 'french_word: english_word' dictionary for speedy lookups in either language. However you have to make sure that words are unique in either language so they can form the keys.
You can create an 'english_word: french_word' dictionary and easily swap it to a 'french_word: english_word' dictionary for speedy lookups in either language. However you have to make sure that words are unique in either language so they can form the keys.
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. However you have to make sure that words are unique in either language so they can form the keys.
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#13 Oct 9th, 2009
In a dictionary container the 'potato' : 'pomme dé terre'
key:value pair will work well after the language swap.
If you have several English words for one French word you need to use a tuple container as a value. Tuples can be used for keys on a swap. Then in your key search you have to go through the items in the tuple one by one, if the key type is a tuple.
This project can quickly become rather complex, no matter what approach you pick. If you have a choice of words to pick from, you need the know the language by heart, or at least the meaning of the word in the sentence it is used in!
George Carlin used to make a lot of money explaining the quirks of the English language. I imagine he had a counterpart in France.
key:value pair will work well after the language swap.
If you have several English words for one French word you need to use a tuple container as a value. Tuples can be used for keys on a swap. Then in your key search you have to go through the items in the tuple one by one, if the key type is a tuple.
This project can quickly become rather complex, no matter what approach you pick. If you have a choice of words to pick from, you need the know the language by heart, or at least the meaning of the word in the sentence it is used in!
George Carlin used to make a lot of money explaining the quirks of the English language. I imagine he had a counterpart in France.
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Originally Posted by vegaseat 
This project can quickly become rather complex, no matter what approach you pick. If you have a choice of words to pick from, you need the know the language by heart, or at least the meaning of the word in the sentence it is used in!
What about English to English dictionary?
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