Improving your vocabulary

It is possible to improve your vocabulary using Python! Imagine setting up a large display that is installed somewhere prominently and updated on a daily basis. We will be making use of the wordnik API (sign up for an API key at https://www.wordnik.com/signup):

1. The first step is to install the wordnik API client for python3:

git clone https://github.com/wordnik/wordnik-python3.git
       cd wordnik-python3/
       sudo python3 setup.py install

Note

There are restrictions on the wordnik API usage. Refer to the API documentation for more details.

2. Let's review writing our first example using the wordnik Python client. In order to fetch the word of the day, we need to initialize the WordsApi class. According to the API documentation, this could be done as follows:

       # sign up for an API key 
       API_KEY = 'API_KEY' 
       apiUrl = 'http://api.wordnik.com/v4' 
       client = swagger.ApiClient(API_KEY, apiUrl) 
       wordsApi = WordsApi.WordsApi(client)

3. Now that the...