Spell-check engine?

[Mike C. Fletcher]

aspell.sourceforge.net (GNU Aspell) appears to be a post-pspell project 
(tries to bind together aspell and pspell).  I'd been wanting to find 
something a little more portable (i.e. something that can compile be 
installed without dragging the entire Cygwin environment with it) and 
hopefully something already wrapped in Python :) .

However, since you suggested it, I ran SWIG across the aspell.h file 
(which appears to include the bulk of the useful interface) and it was 
successful in generating a wrapper, though it complained a lot about 
potential memory leaks.  I haven't been able to make the aspell.exe 
binary give me a suggestion yet (though it obviously can do so according 
to the docs).  Neither have I tried to compile the SWIG wrapper (since I 
don't have a proper build environment for Cygwin Python + SWIG).

There are times when I wonder just how long a CLI will take to get here 
so this kind of silliness can just go away.

I have no interest whatsoever in re-inventing the wheel of the engine 
(to mix a metaphor) here, I was just curious if there was a solution 
that was readily available that these projects could use.  I'm beginning 
to think that a simple pipe to a binary of aspell/ispell (ugly as that 
sounds) is the most practical approach.

Okay, off to real work now,
Mike

Terry Hancock wrote:

>On Friday 18 October 2002 01:00 pm, python-list-request at python.org wrote:
>  
>
>>Anyone have a fairly standard spell-check engine available for use from
>>Python?  That is, something with an interface something like this:
>>    
>>
>
>I don't know of any ready-made solutions, and could use one myself, so
>if you find something, please post. I immediately imagine using a wrapper
>for ispell or aspell or the pspell library though I am ignorant of how to do
>that.  I was able to find a few interesting leads, though:
>
>ispell: http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html
>
>aspell: http://aspell.sourceforge.net
>
>pspell: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2791
>            http://www.fifi.org/doc/libpspell-dev/man-html/manual.html
>
>The last is a library, which would suggest the strategy of using
>SWIG or Pyrex or some other python extension method to make
>the C++ library available to Python.
>
>Certainly these can do the things you want, and I have seen
>programs that use the libraries.
>
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>Alternatively, if you want a pure-python approach, I'm pretty sure that
>
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