pythonspell-checkingpyenchant

How to add dictionary to PyEnchant?


I got PyEnchant with files for many languages: en_US, en_AU, de_DE, fr_FR. Now I call list of dictionaries and see only small set: 'en', 'en_US', 'en_GB', 'en_CA'. I call:

items = enchant._broker.list_languages()

How to load into Enchant other langs? New files? So enchant.Dict() can take it.


Solution

  • You can check that you have a language available, from a Python prompt type:

    import enchant
    print enchant.list_languages()
    

    Then you need to import it, lets assume german is the one I am looking for. Then, from terminal I type:

    sudo apt-get install myspell-de-de
    

    To check it works, from a Python prompt type:

    import enchant
    d = enchant.Dict('de_DE')
    d.check("Hello") # False
    d.check("Guten") # True
    

    For a fuller list of dictionaries see:

    http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/myspell-dictionary

    http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/aspell-dictionary

    http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/precise/openoffice.org-dictionaries

    http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/ispell-dictionary