pymeanings 0.1

Getting meanings in a GUI dailog box

Video Demo:

Description:

Introduction

This is my final project in CS50x Harvard. This program can work in Debian Linux based computers (but it can work on Mac OS also, although I’ve not checked). This project is a program that finds meanings of words. This version of the program uses internet and it will run with a keyboard shortcut. If you want to find a meaning of a word then follow the following steps:

1. Connect to the internet.

2. Select the word you want to find the meaning of.

3. Press the keyboard shortcut you had set (Go to ‘Setting up your PyMeanings’)

Setting up your PyMeanings

Installing dependencies

1. xsel: Check that xsel is installed in your system by typing xsel --version in your terminal. If it is not installed then install it by typing sudo apt install xsel in your terminal.

xsel is a program that retrieve and set the X selection as it is given in the manual page accessed by typing man xsel. It is the program responsible for capturing the selected text by the user.

Installing pymeanings

This program works on Python version = 3.7+. Install the package by typing in your terminal pip install pymeanings

The keyboard shortcut can be anything you want. In your terminal run which pymeaning. Assign your keyboard shortcut to the location given the bash script you had run. Following are some links which can tell you how to make keyboard shortcuts in different Linux-based OS:

1. For Xubuntu

2. For Ubuntu

3. For Linux Mint

4. For Mac OS X

Different outputs

If the output gives you an “Error” window. Then it must be a loss of steps you made. Following are the list of errors:

1. Message: “Please select word for finding meaning”. Then it means you forgot to select the word.

2. Message: “Can’t find meaning of ‘{your word}’. Check your internet connection or the word you selected might not mean anything!!”. Then it means you are disconnected from the internet or the word you selected does not make sense.

If the output is something else other than the errors and shows a bulb symbol, then it means you followed the steps properly.

Best of Luck with PyMeanings

Adhrit Pramanik