API - Call from bash script

[Jbithell]

Is there a simple way to call whitakers-words from a bash script, with parameters passed, and have only the output returned, instead of the welcome menu returned etc.

[mk270]

Yes - BTW, you've got some wrapped version of Words, right? What's it called again?

[Jbithell]

Yes I do - it's sapiensoptio.com - and the intention is to move it to this script.

[chrisfair]

What I did was just provide the argument when I called it. The welcome menu does not show up when providing arguments. I made a prayer memorizing program years ago in python and that mechanism worked fine. I actually parsed the argument list and did a single word at a time for example:

words pater words noster words qui words es

If the user selected more than one word for grammar.

Here is a link to the python code if you are interested. def btnShowGrammarClick(self, event): # wxGlade: MyFrame.

    contentsOfSelection = self.txtDisplayPrayer.GetStringSelection()
    if contentsOfSelection != '':
        searchTerms = \
            self.Parser.scrubListOfPunctuation(contentsOfSelection.split(' '
                ))
    else:
        searchTerms = \
            self.Parser.scrubListOfPunctuation(self.txtDisplayPrayer.GetValue().split(' '
                ))
    operatingSystem = platform.system().lower()
    runCommandForGrammar = ''

    for searchTerm in searchTerms:
        if searchTerm != '':

            currentDirectory = self.getCurrentFileLocation()

            newDirectory = os.path.join(currentDirectory,
                    'LatinEngines')
            if operatingSystem.find('linux') != -1:
                newDirectory = os.path.join(newDirectory, 'Linux')
                runCommandForGrammar = './words'
            if operatingSystem.find('windows') != -1\
                 or operatingSystem.find('microsoft') != -1:
                newDirectory = os.path.join(newDirectory, 'Windows')
                runCommandForGrammar = 'words.exe'
            if operatingSystem.find('darwin') != -1:
                newDirectory.path.join(newDirectory, 'Linux')
                runCommandForGrammar = './words'
            os.chdir(newDirectory)

            try:
                myOutput = subprocess.Popen([runCommandForGrammar,
                        self.Parser.unicodeToAscii(searchTerm)],
                        stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
            except:
                myOutput = 'An error has occured try again.'
            os.chdir(currentDirectory)
            self.txtDisplayInfo.SetValue((self.txtDisplayInfo.GetValue()
                     + '''

''' + myOutput).strip('\n'))

    event.Skip()

[chrisfair]

btw I had just started learning to program back then and am naturally embarrassed by the code specifically checking for the os on every loop through was wasteful. The program worked/works well enough though. The output was the full grammar.