Python based dictionary. Fetched data from meriem-webster dictionary website,

pyDict.py

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2
import sys
proxy = urllib2.ProxyHandler() # Your proxy here.
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)

def getPrintUnicode(soup):
    
    body=''
    if isinstance(soup, unicode):
        soup = soup.replace(''',"'")
        soup = soup.replace('"','"')
        soup = soup.replace(' ',' ')
        soup = soup.replace('>','>')
        soup = soup.replace('&lt;','<')
        body = body + soup
    else:
        if not soup.contents:
            return ''
        con_list = soup.contents
        for con in con_list:
            body = body + getPrintUnicode(con)
    return body

def getWord():
    word = sys.argv[1]
    base_url = "http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/"
    url = base_url+word

    page = urllib2.urlopen(url)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(page.read())
    print word,":"
    contents = soup.findAll("span",{"class":"ssens"})
    for content in contents:
        print getPrintUnicode(content)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    getWord()