sopel-wolfram

Wolfram|Alpha plugin for the Sopel IRC bot framework

Installing

Releases are hosted on PyPI, so after installing Sopel, all you need is pip:

$ pip install sopel-wolfram

Requirements

• Sopel 8.x
• wolframalpha 5.x*

You will also need a Wolfram|Alpha App ID; see details below in the "Configuring" section.

* — The MIT-licensed wolframalpha library is vendored in this release, to work around this bug. Doing it this way is safest; the best alternative was pinning to the Git branch of a pull request fixing it that could be deleted at any time.

Configuring

The easiest way to configure sopel-wolfram is via Sopel's configuration wizard—simply run sopel-plugins configure wolfram and enter the values for which it prompts you.

However, you can manually add the following section to your Sopel bot's configuration file if desired:

[wolfram]
app_id = yourappidgoeshere

The app_id setting is required, and you will need to get your own App ID from Wolfram|Alpha at https://developer.wolframalpha.com/

Optional settings:

• max_public: the number of lines over which results will be sent in NOTICE instead of to the channel (default: 5)
• units: measurement system displayed in results, either metric (the default) or nonmetric

Example usage

<User> .wa 2+2
<Sopel> [W|A] 2+2 = 4

<User> .wa python language release date
<Sopel> [W|A] Python | date introduced = 1991

<User> .wa airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow
<Sopel> [W|A] estimated average cruising airspeed of an unladen European
        swallow = 25 mph  (miles per hour)(asked, but not answered, about a
        general swallow in the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

Changelog

Ticket numbers in changelog entries can be looked up by visiting https://github.com/dgw/sopel-wolfram/issue/<number>

0.6.1 "Mirai to wa?"

Updated:

• wolframalpha library now bundled, for bug-fixing reasons
  Should upstream resume development, sopel-wolfram will switch back.

Meta:

• Future-proofed, PEP639-compliant license metadata (#27)
• Updated build/publish workflow (#27)

0.6.0 "Bocchi de Skip"

First release as sopel-wolfram, replacing the old sopel_modules.wolfram package for Sopel 7 and older.

Updated:

• Sopel 8.x and Python 3.8+ now required (#25)
• Upgraded to wolframalpha 5.x (#25)
• Modernized packaging & package metadata (#25)
• Streamlined documentation (#25)

0.5.0 "ALIVE"

That's "ALIVE" as in "This project isn't DEAD" (despite the last release being over two years old).

Updated:

• Sopel 7.x now supported & required (#23)
• Dropped support for Sopel 6.x (#23)
• Dropped support for wolframalpha 2.x (#23)
• Internal refactoring to take advantage of new Sopel features (#23)

Meta:

• No more ZIP releases; PyPI only allows one file type now (#22)

0.4.1 "Kibou ni tsuite"

This release named in memory of LuckyNumber78, who changed lives every day simply by being her excitable, fun-loving self. She is missed by many.

Fixed:

• max_public setting could cause errors because it was treated as a string (#21)

0.4.0 "Mirai no kajitsu"

Added:

• Support for wolframalpha 3.0 with transitional fallback to 2.4 (#11, #19; see README notes)
• New configuration option max_public, a number defining the maximum number of lines that can be sent without using NOTICEs. Default: 5 (#13)
• New configuration option units, to specify whether the API should return metric (default) or nonmetric measurements (#18; see #16)

Updated:

• Threshold for using NOTICEs is now 5 lines, up from the previous default of 3

Fixed:

• Non-ASCII text in output is no longer \:encoded (#15)

0.3.1 "Nusumareta kuchibiru"

Updates:

• Unicode-encode query to avoid UnicodeEncodeError on non-ASCII characters (#10)

0.3.0 "So long!"

Updates:

• Results longer than 3 lines will be sent via NOTICE instead of flooding channels (#8)

0.2.1 "Mae shika mukanee"

Updates:

• Output now split into multiple messages when line breaks are present (#4)
• Tell pip we do not want wolframalpha 3.0 yet (#6)

0.2.0 "Miraibashi"

Updates:

• Try a lot harder to give useful output (#3)
• Tell user to try again if an unspecified error occurs (empty error message)

Meta:

• Cleanup: PEP8 & unused imports
• Refactor to make future addition of integration tests easier

0.1.2 "Switch"

Updates:

• Shorten some error messages
• Identify as "[W|A]" instead of "[Wolfram]" in output for brevity
• Ensure all module output is prefixed
• Add more examples to help output and README

Meta:

• README now includes installation instructions and where to get help/report bugs

0.1.1 "Already"

Updates:

• Now outputs error if app_id is missing (#1)

Meta:

• README reformatted (thanks @maxpowa)
• Begin maintaining version history in NEWS file

0.1.0 "Beginner"

• Initial release
• Adopted with permission from https://github.com/maxpowa/inumuta-modules/blob/e0b195c/wolfram.py