On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Purodha Blissenbach
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Krinkle wrote:
>> * Python
>>  - Not sure how to pull this one off yet, as a work around it could
>> make http request to the api in json (since Python supports that) but
>> a way without making http calls would be preferred. I'm not a heavy
>> Python developer (I've used it a couple of times to write simple
>> ircbots (irclib) and wikibots (pywikibot), but that's about it). Any
>> suggestions from python developers how they would like to have it
>> delivered, let me know how you want it served and I'll see what I can
>> do.
>
> Count me in for supporting python, too. My experience is similar to yours,
> and I cannot start rightaway, but I think, getting the php implementation
> as a reference should have preceedence anyways.
>
> Btw., I have been thinking about PLURAL implementations. It might
> be possible to automatically extract plural routines from MediaWikis
> LanguageZxx.php files, and wrapping them into a piece of code such
> as a big switch on language codes. Since the functions are pretty small,
> and there are not really many languages having their own PLURAL
> implementations, this might at least be a simple and effective start.
>
> --
> Greetings - Purodha
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Yes, you may "pack" some PLURALs. For instance, a lot of slavic
languages have similar rule on plurals (three arguments and identical
algorithm, at least in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian).

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Павел Селіцкас/Paul Selitskas
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