Pure Python module to hyphenate text
Project description
Pyphen is a pure Python module to hyphenate text using existing Hunspell hyphenation dictionaries.
https://github.com/Kozea/Pyphen
This module is a fork of python-hyphenator, written by Wilbert Berendsen.
https://code.google.com/p/python-hyphenator/
Many dictionaries are included in pyphen, they come from the LibreOffice git repository and are distributed under various licenses, including the LGPL version 2.1 also used for pyphen.
See: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/
Usage:
>>> import pyphen
>>> 'nl_NL' in pyphen.LANGUAGES
True
>>> dic = pyphen.Pyphen(lang='nl_NL')
>>> dic.inserted('lettergrepen')
'let-ter-gre-pen'
>>> dic.wrap('autobandventieldopje', 11)
('autoband-', 'ventieldopje')
>>> for pair in dic.iterate('Amsterdam'):
... print(pair)
...
('Amster', 'dam')
('Am', 'sterdam')
>>>
Features:
100% pure Python with no dependencies
a lot of included dictionaries
caches dict files and hyphenated words
supports nonstandard hyphenation patterns
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