[Tutor] put?

Robert Kirkpatrick robertk at bcgsc.ca
Tue May 6 18:46:09 CEST 2008


Hey Alan!  Is there a dict program for the MacOS flavour of *nix?  That's a
slick little bit of code but it doesn't work on my Mac:

robertk01$ dict
-bash: dict: command not found

but it works fine when I ssh into a Linux box...


> 
> OTOH, if you are happy with those ideas:
> 
>>> word = raw_input("enter your word >>")
>>> put, get=os.popen4("dict -d wn " + (word))
>>> for lines in get.readlines():
>>>     print lines



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