Python program for defining macroeconomics terms using the McConnell Brue Economics textbook. This program allows for searching the glossary and supports fuzzy-matching (every search will return a term, whichever is the closest). There are two ways to use this program:
Executing define.py followed by a list of terms is the simplest way to get a glossary definition.
./definy.py TERM_1 "TERM_WITH_SPACES_2" TERM_3
For example, running ./define.py "aggregate demand" would return:
Another method is to create a delimited file of the terms that you would like defined.
./definy.py FILE_NAME.txt
The file must have the extension .txt, that is how the program knows to load it. Optionally, you can provide a second argument to denote the term delimiter that you used in the file. For example, to define the terms in the following file:
aggregate demand, capital gains, international monetary fund
you would execute the command ./define.py FILE_NAME.txt ", ". This would produce the output:
This argument setup looks like ./definy.py FILE_NAME.txt OPTIONAL_DELIMITER="\n". If you provide no second argument for the delimiter, the program will default to \n, newlines as the delimiter.
You'll notice that international monetary fund -> International Monetary Fund (IMF) appears. This is because there was no direct match for international monetary fund. What the program found instead was International Monetary Fund (IMF) because that was the closest match in the glossary.
Every search using this program will return a result. If the result is less than 100% similar to the search than the above arrowing-matching format will be displayed.