def getTranslatedText(text, sourceLan='', destLan='en'):
    '''
    A Python Wrapper for Google AJAX Language API:
    * Uses Google Language Detection, in cases source language is not provided with the source text
    * Splits up text if it's longer then 4500 characters, as a limit put up by the API
    '''

    baseUrl = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate"
    
    params  = ({'langpair': '%s|%s' % (sourceLan, destLan), 'v': '1.0' })
    retText = ''
    for i in getSplits(text):
        params['q'] = i
        try:
            resp = simplejson.load(urllib.urlopen('%s' % (baseUrl), data = urllib.urlencode(params)))
            try:
                retText += resp['responseData']['translatedText']
            except:
                retText += 'ERROR START: '+ i + 'END ERROR'
        except:
            pass
        
    return html_unescape(retText)
	
def getSplits(text,splitLength=4500):
    # Translate Api has a limit on length of text(4500 characters) that can be translated at once, 

    return (text[index:index+splitLength] for index in xrange(0,len(text),splitLength))