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>_.
::
$ pip install spylls
.. code-block:: python
from spylls.hunspell import Dictionary
dictionary = Dictionary.from_files('en_US')
print(dictionary.lookup('spylls'))
for suggestion in dictionary.suggest('spylls'): print(suggestion)
Full documentation, including detailed source code/algorithms walkthrough, more detailed reasoning and some completeness reports, is available at https://spylls.readthedocs.io/.
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!
FAQs
Hunspell ported to pure Python
We found that spylls demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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