tk_translate 0.5

tk-translate is a PySimpleGUI variant of PageTranslate. It provides a terse GUI to get some text translated using one of the various services from PT or Deep-Translator. It's mostly just meant for testing.

Presents two input boxes, some buttons, for plain text translations. Usage:

• Insert text into left input
• Select backend
• Change target language
• Hit translate

There's also a [File] mode which allows Office document / content.xml (best with DeepL) or text file translations. The output target is implied to be filename.LANG.ext. Other CLI translation tools can be edited into the combobox here. (The dingonyms output doesn't look quite as useful in a plain text field). Defaults can now be set in the [⛭] settings dialog.

translationbackends usage

There's two options to instantiate the backends. The default assign_service() expects a dictionary of parameters, one of which decides on the instance used:

import tk_translate.translationbackends as tb
service = tb.assign_service({
    "backend": "DeepL Web",
    "from": "auto",
    "lang": "en",
    "quick": 1,
})
engl = service.translate("¿Donde esta la pizza?")

While the individual classes also would allow keyword arguments:

service = tb.GoogleAjax(lang="en")
text = service.linebreakwise(text)

Using from= does require a syntax workaround however:

service = tb.PonsWeb(lang="en", **{"from": "it"})

Which works as well for all arguments. (Most being optional.) MyMemory benefits from an email=, while the commercial providers want an api_key=.

deep-translator

With two exceptions, deep-translator is the better option. translationbackends merely retains some Python2 compatibility (for good old OpenOffice). Instantiating it from tb.DeepTranslator(backend="Yandex") requires a second name lookup in TB (backend= best prefixed with 'DT: LibreTranslate').