#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
lookup.py - Lookup Values From Compiled Vocabulary DBs
Author: Sean B. Palmer, inamidst.com
Written for Pat Hall of blogamundo.com

You could use this in a CGI a la: 

#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo 'Content-Type: text/plain'
echo 
python lookup.py ${PATH_INFO#/}
"""

import sys, anydbm

def main(): 
   input, output, word = sys.argv[1].split('/')
   db = anydbm.open(input + '-' + output + '.db', 'r')
   print db[word]
   db.close()

if __name__=="__main__": 
   main()