misspellings 1.3

A tool to detect misspellings

This is a Python library and tool to check for misspelled words in source code. It does this by looking for words from a list of common misspellings. The dictionary it uses to do this is based on the Wikipedia list of common misspellings.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/For_machines

The list has been slightly modified to remove some changes that cause a number of false positives. In particular ok->OK was removed (ok is frequently used in perl tests for instance).

Example

To try it out, merely run the following (using the coreutils source tree as an example):

$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils -b v8.10 coreutils
$ find coreutils -name '*.c' | misspellings -f -
coreutils/src/cat.c[754]: efficency -> "efficiency"
coreutils/src/comm.c[198]: funtion -> "function"
coreutils/src/expr.c[21]: seperate -> "separate"
coreutils/src/pr.c[1417]: accomodate -> "accommodate"
coreutils/src/tac.c[342]: unneccessary -> "unnecessary"
coreutils/src/test.c[91]: supressed -> "suppressed"

Credits

• Kevin Lyda: Initial shell goo and python version.

• myint: Better python idioms and style. Mixed case support.

• Maciej Blizinski: Potential use in opencsw pushed move to python.