[ANN] inflect.py: generate plurals, ordinals, numbers to words...

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Jul 16 12:40:28 EDT 2010


On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:29:44 +0200
Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson at googlemail.com> wrote:

> >>>> I'm pleased to announce the release of inflect.py v0.1.8, a module that
> >>>> correctly generates:
> >>>>
> >>>> * the plural of singular nouns and verbs
> >>>> * the singular of plural nouns
> >>>> * ordinals
> >>>> * indefinite articles
> >>>> * present participles
> >>>> * and converts numbers to words
> >>>
> >>> Which languages does it support? If the answer is what I expect it is,
> >>
> >> It is. Most of the time, when people forget to say what they are talking
> >> about, assuming that they are either US-Americans or Windows users will
> >> hit
> >> the nail on the head.
> >
> > And most of the time, when people are bitching about US-Americans,
> > assuming that they are Europeans will hit the nail on the head :)
> 
> In this case, I actually should modify the above to: when people are
> bitching about an English speaker they don't like for some reason and
> they automatically think that said person must be US-American when in
> fact he/she is Australian (or British or South African or something
> else), assuming that they are Europeans will hit the nail on the head
> :)

That's why we'd rather bitch about Anglo-Saxons instead.

Regards

Antoine.





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