light trad system with serialized dict (any format that serialize dicts

pyco_translate.py

import os
import codecs
import json
""" $ cat *json
{"welcome": { "fr": "bienvenue", "es": "holla " }}
"""

class Translator(object):
    def __init__(self,path=".",_format="json"):
        try:
             thaw = __import__(_format)
        except Exception as e:
            raise Exception("Error while loading format <%s> %s" % (_format,e))

        self._translation_table = dict({})
        for f in os.listdir(path):
            if f.endswith(_format):
                with codecs.open(f,"r","utf-8") as frozen:
                    self._translation_table.update(thaw.load(frozen))

    def __call__(self, word, lang="en"):
        return self._translation_table.get(word, {word:lang}) .get(lang,word)

_=Translator()

print _("welcome", "fr")
print _("welcome", "es")
print _("welcome", "de")

Traducteur mot a mot....en gros tu peux pas traduire de phrases