Hi, I am new to this list and just a hobby programmer. For various reasons I found that the Python programming language needed a hyphenation feature. So I happened to find libhyphenwith all those wonderful dictionaries and wrote a wrapper for Python. The result is a C extension module with some Python code on top for convenient access. I thought I let you know. Maybe you find it useful for testing and/or working on dictionaries. There is a module called 'dictools' in the hyphen package that can download and install dictionaries on the fly. There is also a test framework to hyphenate multiple word lists with multiple dictionaries. The latter are installed automatically (provided you have internet access). All tests are logged... The source distribution includes Windows binaries for Python 2.4 and 2.5, so you don't need a compiler to get going. Just unpack it and enter the usual command: "python setup.py install".
You can download PyHyphen from the Python package index at http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/PyHyphen. Code example: from hyphen import hyphenator from hyphen.dictools import * # Download and install some dictionaries in the default directory using the default # repository, usually the OpenOffice website for lang in ['de_DE', 'fr_FR', 'en_UK', 'hu_HU']: if not is_installed(lang): install(lang) # Create some hyphenators h_de = hyphenator('de_DE') h_en = hyphenator('en_US') h_hu = hyphenator('hu_HU') # Now hyphenate some words print h_hu.inserted(u'asszonnyal') 'asz=szony=nyal' print h_en.pairs('beautiful') [[u'beau', u'tiful'], [u'beauti', u'ful']] print h_en.wrap('beautiful', 6) [u'beau-', u'tiful'] print h_en.wrap('beautiful', 7) [u'beauti-', u'ful'] from textwrap2 import fill print fill('very long text...', width = 40, use_hyphens = h_en) Regards Leo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
