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Python wrapper for Hspell

Project description

This is simple python wrapper to [Hspell](http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/).

Hspell is free Hebrew spellchecker and morphology engine.
This is just a python wrapping of Hspell.

You can get Hspell from:
http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/

Hspell was written by Nadav Har'El and Dan Kenigsberg:
```
nyh @ math.technion.ac.il
danken @ cs.technion.ac.il
```

# Install
1. Get Hspell:
1. Download Hspell: http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/
2. Configure: ./configure --enable-shared --enable-linginfo
3. Build: make
4. Install: make install
2. python setup.py install

You can install HspellPy using pip:
```
pip install HspellPy
```

If you fail to import HspellPy with the following error:
```python
>>> import HspellPy
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: libhspell.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
```
You should validate libhspell.so.0 is accessible in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

# Usage
Usage example (python 3)
```python
>>> from __future__ import unicode_literals
>>> import HspellPy
>>> speller = HspellPy.Hspell(linguistics=True)

>>> speller.check_word('בית') # check whether word exist in dictionary
True
>>> speller.check_word('הבית') # words with prefix are also valid
True
>>> speller.check_word('בעעעע') # invalid word
False
>>> 'בית' in speller # syntactic sugar
True
>>> speller.try_correct('עדג') # corrections (doesn't correct typo. see Hspell doc)
['הדג', 'עדה']
>>> speller.enum_splits('וילדותיה') # list all splits of a word
>[WordEnumSplit(word='וילדותיה', baseword='ילדותיה', preflen=1, prefspec=60)]
>>> speller.linginfo('ילדה') # morphology
[LinginfoWord(word='ילדה', linginfo='פ,נ,3,יחיד,עבר'),
LinginfoWord(word='ילדה', linginfo='ע,נ,יחיד'),
LinginfoWord(word='ילדה', linginfo='ע,ז,יחיד,כינוי/נ,3,יחיד')]
```

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