Untruncate using Google Suggest API

untruncate.py

from urllib import quote_plus                                                   
from lxml import etree

def untruncate(s):                                                              
    q = s.strip(u' .\u2026')                                                    
    url = 'http://google.com/complete/search?output=toolbar&q=' + quote_plus(q.encode('latin-1'))
    root = etree.parse(url).getroot()                                                 
    return q + root[0][0].attrib['data'][len(q):] if len(root) else s

def demo():
    from itertools import cycle
    sample = [ 'Micros', 'Paul Grah', 'not able to handle this exampl', 'Y Comb', 'Wikip', 'Hacker Ne',
        'Hackers and Pa', 'Zen and the Art', 'Founders at W', 'A Deepness in th']
    for s, ending in zip(sample, cycle(['', '...', u'\u2026'])):                    
        s += ending                                                                 
        print '#', s, '->', untruncate(s)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    demo()

# Micros -> Microsoft
# Paul Grah… -> Paul Graham
# not able to handle this exampl... -> not able to handle this exampl...
# Y Comb -> Y Combinator
# Wikip… -> Wikipedia
# Hacker Ne... -> Hacker News
# Hackers and Pa -> Hackers and Painters
# Zen and the Art… -> Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintenance
# Founders at W... -> Founders at Work
# A Deepness in th -> A Deepness in the sky

Clever idea. Wish this trick worked crossdomain in browser!