transliterator.py

transliterator.py

import argparse
import sanscript
from os.path import abspath
from os.path import splitext
from os.path import basename
import sys

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,description="Convert a file from one script to another using Sanscript and print the output to stdout.\n\nAvailable scripts are: bengali, devanagari, gujarati, gurmukhi, kannada, malayalam, oriya, tamil, telugu, hk, iast, iso, itrans, kolkata, slp1, velthuis, wx.")
parser.add_argument("filename",nargs="+",type=str,help="The input file")
parser.add_argument("fr",nargs="+",type=str,help="The input script")
parser.add_argument("to",nargs="+",type=str,help="The output script")
args = parser.parse_args()

out = open(splitext(basename(args.filename[0]))[0] + "-" + args.to[0] + ".txt",'w')

with open(abspath(args.filename[0]), 'r') as textfile:
    text = textfile.readlines()
    for i in range(len(text)):
        x = text[i]
        out.write(sanscript.transliterate(x,args.fr[0],args.to[0]))