I am trying to parse, translate and save XML file. I am stucked with setting up Translator from googletrans library in Python (probably). Here is my code:
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from googletrans import Translator
# Parse the XML file
tree = ET.parse('input.xml')
# Create a Translator object
translator = Translator(src='en', dest='sk')
# Iterate over the elements in the XML document
for elem in tree.iter():
# Check if the element has text content
if elem.text:
# Translate the text content
translated_text = translator.translate(elem.text).text
# Update the text content of the element
elem.text = translated_text
# Save the modified XML document to a file
tree.write('output.xml')
Here is my error: "line 8, in translator = Translator(src='en', dest='sk') ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ TypeError: Translator.init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'src'"
Can someone tell me, what I have wrong there? Thanks.
CodePudding user response:
I tried googletrans, but I got it not to run. I suggest translators instead, it seem more actively developed, too.
Here my test XML Input <- DE:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<book>
<text>Bücher sind das Salz in der Suppe</text>
</book>
Python script according your suggestion:
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import translators as ts
import translators.server as tss
from_language, to_language = 'de', 'en'
tree= ET.parse('translator_de.xml')
root = tree.getroot()
ET.dump(root)
for elem in root:
if elem.text is not None:
translated_text = tss.google(elem.text, from_language, to_language)
elem.text = translated_text
tree.write('translator_en.xml', encoding='utf-8', xml_declaration=True)
ET.dump(root)
Output -> EN:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<book>
<text>Books are the salt in the soup</text>
</book>
CodePudding user response:
You cannot use src
and dest
when creating an instance of Translator
. Those parameters are available on the translate()
method.
translator = Translator()
...
translated_text = translator.translate(elem.text, src='en', dest='sk').text
See https://py-googletrans.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#googletrans-translator.