Google CGI API for Japanese Input

google.py

#!/usr/lib/python
#vim:fileencoding=utf-8

'''
http://www.google.com/intl/ja/ime/cgiapi.html

>>>import google
>>>api = google.Api()
>>>result = api.ja('こんにちは')
>>>print result[0][1][1]

今日は
'''

import urllib
import urllib2
import re
import json

class Api:
    def __init__(self):
        self.lang = 'ja-Hira|ja'
        self.uri = 'http://www.google.com/transliterate?'

    def ja(self, text):
        params = urllib.urlencode({
                'langpair' : self.lang,
                'text' : text
                })  
        result = urllib2.urlopen(self.uri, params).read()
        temp =  re.sub('\n', '', result)
        line =  re.sub(',\]', ']', temp)
        lis = json.loads(line)

        return lis