Dictionary interface of stardict, support regular expression (regex) search and colored output.
Project description
# py_sdvb
## Description
Vocabulary builder by generating word lists from stardict dictionaries. Allow regular expression search. Written in python.
Command-line dictionary searching tool with colored output.
## Features
### Regular expression support
See some regex search examples below:
![Regex support.](/images/regex.png)
### Colored output
Keywords are highlighted.
<img src=”/images/coloroutput.png” width=”800”>
### Jupyter/Ipython notebook (Experimental)
Interactively searching/translating in Jupyter notebooks.
<img src=”/images/ipynb_sdcv.gif” width=”600”>
## Prerequisites
This package is based on PyStarDict (https://github.com/lig/pystardict).
Programs are tested for python3 on Mac OS X.
## Usage
### Get the dictionaries
Put all the dictionaries in the directory ~/.stardict/. If you have been using tools like stardict or sdcv, you probably have already had the dictionaries stored there.
### sdvb.py
This is the primary program to help building your vocabulary, by generating a list of words together with their translations.
Run sdvb.py like this: `bash ./sdvb.py [-s] [-h] `
Use the [-h] option for help.
The -s option provides a mode to choose dictionary. Otherwise, all the dictionaries are used.
You will then be prompted with REGEX:, which askes you to input regular expressions for search.
### sdcv.py
This is an interactive command line dictionary tool, basically an analog of sdcv.
`bash ./sdcv.py `
### Add to $PATH
If not using pip to install, probably you need these commands: `bash ln -s /path/to/py_sdvb/sdvb.py /usr/local/bin/pysdvb ln -s /path/to/py_sdvb/sdcv.py /usr/local/bin/pysdcv `