Spylls: Hunspell ported to Python

Spylls is an effort of porting prominent spellcheckers into clear, well-structured, well-documented Python. It is intended to be useful both as a library and as some kind of "reference (or investigatory, if you will) implementation". Currently, only Hunspell <https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell>_ is ported.

Hunspell is a long-living, complicated, almost undocumented piece of software, and it was our feeling that the significant part of human knowledge is somehow "locked" in a form of a large C++ project. That's how Spylls was born: as an attempt to "unlock" it, via well-structured and well-documented implementation in a high-level language.

Follow the explanatory blog post series: on my blog <https://zverok.github.io/spellchecker.html>, on Medium <https://medium.com/spylls-rebuilding-the-spellchecker>, or subscribe to my mailing list <https://zverok.github.io/subscribe.html>_.

Usage as a library

::

$ pip install spylls

.. code-block:: python

from spylls.hunspell import Dictionary

en_US dictionary is distributed with spylls

See docs to load other dictionaries

dictionary = Dictionary.from_files('en_US')

print(dictionary.lookup('spylls'))

False

for suggestion in dictionary.suggest('spylls'):
print(suggestion)

spells

spills

Documentation

Full documentation, including detailed source code/algorithms walkthrough, more detailed reasoning and some completeness reports, is available at https://spylls.readthedocs.io/.

Project Links

Docs: https://spylls.readthedocs.io/
GitHub: https://github.com/zverok/spylls
PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/spylls
Issues: https://github.com/spylls/spylls/issues

License

MPL 2.0. See the bundled LICENSE <https://github.com/spylls/spylls/blob/master/LICENSE>_ file for more details.
Note that being an "explanatory rewrite", spylls should considered a derivative work of Hunspell, and so would be all of its ports/rewrites.

We are incredibly grateful to Hunspell's original authors and current maintainers for all the hard work they've put into the most used spellchecker in the world!

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