language_detector_cli_1.py

""""
    THIS SCRIPT IS USING langdetect
"""

# import the detect function from langdetect
from langdetect import detect

# openning the txt file in read mode
sentences_file = open('sentences.txt', 'r')

# creating a list of sentences using the readlines() function
sentences = sentences_file.readlines()

# a function for detection language
def detect_langauage(sentence, n):
    """try and except block for catching exception errors"""
    # the try will run when everything is ok
    try:
        # checking if the sentence[n] exists
        if sentences[n]:
            # creating a new variable, the strip() function removes newlines
            new_sentence = sentences[n].strip('\n')
            print(f'The language for the sentence "{new_sentence}" is {detect(new_sentence)}')
    # this will catch all the errors that occur  
    except:
        print(f'Sentence does not exist')
           
# printing the the number of sentences in the sentences.txt   
print(f'You have {len(sentences)} sentences')

# this will prompt the user to enter an integer
number_of_sentence = int(input('Which sentence do you want to detect?(Provide an integer please):'))

# calling the detect_langauage function
detect_langauage(sentences_file, number_of_sentence)