Project 1 English Dictionary App

# Import the modules required
import json
from difflib import get_close_matches

# Loading data from json file
# in python dictionary
data = json.load(open("dictionary.json"))

def translate(w):
# converts to lower case
w = w.lower()

if w in data:
return data[w]
# for getting close matches of word
elif len(get_close_matches(w, data.keys())) > 0:
yn = input("Did you mean % s instead? Enter Y if yes, or N if no: " % get_close_matches(w, data.keys())[0])
yn = yn.lower()
if yn == "y":
return data[get_close_matches(w, data.keys())[0]]
elif yn == "n":
return "The word doesn't exist. Please double check it."
else:
return "We didn't understand your entry."
else:
return "The word doesn't exist. Please double check it."

# Driver code
word = input("Enter word: ")
output = translate(word)

if type(output) == list:
for item in output:
print(item)
else:
print(output)
input('Press ENTER to exit')