UPPERLETTERS = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
LETTERS_AND_SPACE = UPPERLETTERS + UPPERLETTERS.lower() + ' \t\n'
def loadDictionary():
dictionaryFile = open('dictionary.txt')
englishWords = {}
for word in dictionaryFile.read().split('\n'):
englishWords[word] = None
dictionaryFile.close()
return englishWords
ENGLISH_WORDS = loadDictionary()
def getEnglishCount(message):
message = message.upper()
message = removeNonLetters(message)
possibleWords = message.split()
if possibleWords ==[]:
return 0.0
matches=0
for word in possibleWords:
if word in ENGLISH_WORDS:
matches += 1
return float(matches) / len(possibleWords)
def removeNonLetters(message):
lettersOnly = []
for symbol in message:
if symbol in LETTERS_AND_SPACE:
lettersOnly.append(symbol)
return ''.join(lettersOnly)
def isEnglish(message, wordPercentage=30, letterPercentage=90):
# By default, 20% of the words must exist in the dictionary file, and
# 85% of all the characters in the message must be letters or spaces
# (not punctuation or numbers).
wordsMatch = getEnglishCount(message) * 100
numLetters = len(removeNonLetters(message))
messageLettersPercentage = float(numLetters) / len(message) * 100
lettersMatch = messageLettersPercentage
if lettersMatch >= letterPercentage and wordsMatch >= wordPercentage:
return True
else:
return False