a useless program
After my wife commented that I write “useful programs”, that reminded me of this program that I finished up yesterday. Basically, you type in a word and it looks it up on merriam-webster.com and plays the pronunciation of it over your speakers. It only works on Windows right now, as that is where I developed it. It could easily be adapted for *nix. I call it SoundFinder. It is kind of flaky and throws an exception if the word you enter does not have a match in the MW dictionary. But it was a fun little program to write - it was my first experience with the HTMLParser module and also uses a regular expression. Oh yeah, this program is dedicated to Steve W. Run it with the command “python sf.py tribute” for a tribute.
Sweet. The Tribe just won. Finally built up a lead the bullpen couldn’t blow I guess.
nite
cw
April 7th, 2004 at 10:28 pm
I guess I should mention - you need python to run this program. Get it. It’s really handy, especially if you want to run programs that I make. And who doesn’t?
cw
April 8th, 2004 at 1:37 pm
python, schmython
TRIBE WINS! w00t