A terminal English Word Dict.

dict.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding:utf-8 -*- 
import json, urllib,sys

script = sys.argv[0]
dict_url = "http://dict.qq.com/dict?q="

def usage():
    print "Usage:"
    print "\t%s word" % script

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    usage()
    exit()
word = sys.argv[1]

word_dict_json = urllib.urlopen(dict_url + word).read()

if word_dict_json == '{"err":"sorry, no result"}':
    print "Not find '%s''s mean" % word
    exit()

word_dict = json.loads(word_dict_json)

if word_dict.has_key('local'):
    pass
else:
    print "Sorry!\nCan not query"
    exit()

print "%s" % word
try:
    if word_dict['lang'] == 'eng':

        # words is a list
        words = word_dict['local'][0]['des']

        for mean in words:
            for k in mean.keys():
                print "%s" % (mean[k]),
            print "\n"

    elif word_dict['lang'] == 'ch':
        words = word_dict['local'][0]['des']

        for mean in words:
            print "%s" % mean

except KeyError:
    print "Sorry!\nCan not query"
    exit()