Ask HN: Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next?

Hey all,

After inerte's post a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=446507, I thought I'd use it as an excuse to fiddle with GAE and jQuery.

With props to Bill Watterson [1], I banged up "transmoggit": http://www.transmoggit.com/

(try something like "trim" from PHP -> Python, as an example chosen not-at-all-at-random)

It does the obvious mapping thing, and lets you add your own. That's all fine, I guess, but it's not super-useful, until the 2.0 bit kicks in and "people" start adding clever translations. Of course, no one will bother to amend translations until there's some reason to visit first.

So, my question for the wise crowd: any suggestions on how to automate getting sensible mappings for, say, the easy 50-80%?

(any other suggestions are quite welcome too :)

thanks, scott

1. http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/9876/transmog.html