symspellpy

symspellpy is a Python port of SymSpell v6.5, which provides much higher speed and lower memory consumption. Unit tests from the original project are implemented to ensure the accuracy of the port.

Please note that the port has not been optimized for speed.

Install

For installation instructions, see the INSTALL.rst file or the install documentation.

Usage

Check out the examples provided for sample usage.

CHANGELOG

6.5.2 (2019-10-23)

• Modified load_bigram_dictionary to allow dictionary entries to be split into only 2 parts when using a custom separator
• Added dictionary files to wheels so pkg_resources could be used to access them

6.5.1 (2019-10-08)

• Added separator argument to allow user to choose custom separator for load_dictionary

6.5.0 (2019-09-21)

• Added load_bigram_dictionary and bigram dictionary frequency_bigramdictionary_en_243_342.txt
• Updated lookup_compound algorithm
• Added Levenshtein to compute edit distance
• Added save_pickle_stream and load_pickle_stream to save/load SymSpell data alongside other structure (contribution by marcoffee)

6.3.9 (2019-08-06)

• Added transfer_casing to lookup and lookup_compound
• Fixed prefix length check in _edits_prefix

6.3.8 (2019-03-21)

• Implemented delete_dictionary_entry
• Improved performance by using python builtin hashing
• Added versioning of the pickle

6.3.7 (2019-02-18)

• Fixed include_unknown in lookup
• Removed unused initial_capacity argument
• Improved _get_str_hash performance
• Implemented save_pickle and load_pickle to avoid having to create the dictionary every time

6.3.6 (2019-02-11)

• Added create_dictionary() feature

6.3.5 (2019-01-14)

• Fixed lookup_compound() to return the correct distance

6.3.4 (2019-01-04)

• Added <self._replaced_words = dict()> to track number of misspelled words
• Added ignore_token to word_segmentation() to ignore words with regular expression

6.3.3 (2018-12-05)

• Added word_segmentation() feature

6.3.2 (2018-10-23)

• Added encoding option to load_dictionary()

6.3.1 (2018-08-30)

• Create a package for symspellpy

6.3.0 (2018-08-13)

• Ported SymSpell v6.3