i want to convert Morse Code to English using Python 3+ I have managed to convert english to morse code using this http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578407-simple-morse-code-translator-in-python/
But i want to convert Morse Code to English
I have attempted to do it one charecter at a time, but the problem is that morse code letters are not 1 charecter long like english letters, so E is "." and S is "...", the problem i have is that the dictionary loop will find the "." and match it to E, so instead of getting S i get "E E E" i tried to fix this by detecting spaces and doing it a word at a time, but instead of looking for the letters in the word it searches the entire word against the dictionary i'm new to Python and dictionaries and i don't know how to differeniate between an E "." and an S "..." when searching my dictionary
Here is my code
# defines the dictionary to convert morse to english
CODE_reversed = {'..-.': 'F', '-..-': 'X',
'.--.': 'P', '-': 'T', '..---': '2',
'....-': '4', '-----': '0', '--...': '7',
'...-': 'V', '-.-.': 'C', '.': 'E', '.---': 'J',
'---': 'O', '-.-': 'K', '----.': '9', '..': 'I',
'.-..': 'L', '.....': '5', '...--': '3', '-.--': 'Y',
'-....': '6', '.--': 'W', '....': 'H', '-.': 'N', '.-.': 'R',
'-...': 'B', '---..': '8', '--..': 'Z', '-..': 'D', '--.-': 'Q',
'--.': 'G', '--': 'M', '..-': 'U', '.-': 'A', '...': 'S', '.----': '1'}
def main():
#takes user message and makes it upper case
msg = input('MESSAGE: ')
msg = msg.upper()
addtolist = "" # creates blank string
message = [] # creates blank list
for i in msg:
addtolist = addtolist + i # adds every letter in MSG into a string until it finds a space
addtolist.upper() # makes every letter uppercase
if i == " ": # if it detects a space
message.extend(addtolist)
# adds the previously created addtolist to a list, this makes one word
addtolist = "" # clears previous variable
for i in message:
# for every word in the list
str(i) # make it into a string
print(CODE_reversed[i()]) # search the dictionary for that word
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
This code takes a word, and tries to look it up against the dictionary, but it doesn't work i have also tried searching each individual morse code letter against the dictionary but the problem is that you can't tell when a letter starts and ends, so "..." comes out as "EEE" instead of "S" and i don't know how to fix this
i have also tried searching for solutions but have only found them in Java and i do not know Java