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Real world Common Lisp

Name: Anonymous 2011-03-30 13:42

A simple Stardict client1 in python2, 21 lines with comments. How easy would it be to write an equivalent program in Common Lisp? I think Lisp is not suitable for practical problems.

import re, gzip, struct

idx_file = open('/usr/share/stardict/dic/quick_english-italian.idx', 'r').read()
dic = gzip.open('/usr/share/stardict/dic/quick_english-italian.dict.dz', 'r')

idx_re = r"([\w\W]+?)\x00([\w\W]{8})"

index = {word:struct.unpack('>ii', bytes)
          for (word, bytes) in re.findall(idx_re, idx_file)}

def lookup_word(word):
    if word not in index:
        return False
    pos, size = index[word]
    dic.seek(pos)
    result = dic.read(size)
    return result

while True:
    result = lookup_word(raw_input("Enter a word: "))
    print(result or "Word not found")


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1 - https://github.com/xiangfu/stardict/blob/master/doc/StarDictFileFormat
2 - Requires python 2.7

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-04 5:12

>>54
it'd be slightly smaller than
No it wouldn't be smaller. The cited version uses integer-bytes->integer function and Common Lisp lacks it.

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