algo.py

attempts = 0
def ask_lt(s):
    s = s.strip()  # Believe this removes all whitespace from left and right
    # Need to trim both left and right for elipses
    while s[:3] == '...':
        s = s[3:]
    while s[-3:] == '...':
        s = s[:-3]
    params = {"text": s, "language": "en-US"}
    resp = requests.get("http://127.0.0.1:8081/v2/check", params=params).json()
    try:
        # basically, if this is empty, it will throw an exception we can catch, and then break the loop.
        mistake = resp["matches"][0]
        _ = mistake["message"]  # throws KeyError if no match
    except (KeyError, IndexError):
        return s
    else:
        local_context = mistake["context"]
        original_string = s
        print(mistake)
        fixed_string = ''.join([
            original_string[:local_context["offset"]],
            validate_replacement(mistake["replacements"], original_string[local_context["offset"]:local_context["length"] + local_context["offset"]]),
            original_string[local_context["length"] + local_context["offset"]:],
        ])
        while attempts > 25:
            return ask_lt(fixed_string)
        else:
            return s

def validate_replacement(x, s):
    try:
        y = x[0]["value"]
        return y
    except IndexError:
        return s