Simple Google Translate access from Python

google-translate.py

import httplib, urllib, string

# Just a quick, dirty function I made before a proper API appeared (e.g. goslate).
def translate(IN, OUT, text):
    text = urllib.quote(text)
    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("translate.google.com")
    conn.request("GET", "/translate_a/t?client=t&text="+text+"&hl="+IN+"&tl="+OUT)
    res = conn.getresponse().read()
    res = res[4:string.find(res,",\"\",\"\"]]")]
    res = string.split(res, "],[")
    for i in range(len(res)):
        if i >= 1: res[i] = res[i][1:string.index(res[i], "\",\"")]
        else:      res[i] = res[i][:string.index(res[i], "\",\"")]
    return "".join(res)

print translate("en", "es", "this really works!")