abc.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import requests
import os

path = '/home/yankee/FrenchBot/otherData/'
path2 = '/home/yankee/FrenchBotTranslated/'
os.system('mkdir -p /home/yankee/FrenchBotTranslated/')
# API_KEY = "YOUR-GOOGLE-TRANSLATE-API-KEY-HERE"
API_KEY = "AIzaSyAJmdCjhVnKgEhPvfq6_p-anSZRUeyJbIg"

def translate_call(string):
    PARAMETERS= {'key': API_KEY, 'source':'en','target':'fr','q':string}
    r=requests.post(url='https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?parameters',params=PARAMETERS)
    translate_response=r.json()
    print(translate_response)
    return translate_response['data']['translations'][0]['translatedText']

for datafilename in os.listdir(path):
    datafile = path+datafilename
    output= []
    with open (datafile) as df:
        for line in df:
            if line[0] != '*' and line.strip() != '':
                output.append(translate_call(line))
            elif line.strip() == '':
                output.append('\n')
            else:
                output.append(line)
        outputfile = open(path2+datafilename,'w+')
        for item in output:
            outputfile.write(item.encode("UTF-8"))
            outputfile.write('\n')