pyphen 0.6

Pure Python module to hyphenate text

Pyphen is a pure Python module to hyphenate text using existing Hunspell hyphenation dictionaries.

https://github.com/Kozea/Pyphen

This module is a fork of python-hyphenator, written by Wilbert Berendsen.

https://code.google.com/p/python-hyphenator/

Many dictionaries are included in pyphen, they come from the LibreOffice git repository and are distributed under various licenses, including the LGPL version 2.1 also used for pyphen.

See: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/

Usage:

>>> import pyphen
>>> 'nl_NL' in pyphen.LANGUAGES
True
>>> dic = pyphen.Pyphen(lang='nl_NL')
>>> dic.inserted('lettergrepen')
'let-ter-gre-pen'
>>> dic.wrap('autobandventieldopje', 11)
('autoband-', 'ventieldopje')
>>> for pair in dic.iterate('Amsterdam'):
...     print(pair)
...
('Amster', 'dam')
('Am', 'sterdam')
>>>

Features:

• 100% pure Python with no dependencies

• a lot of included dictionaries

• caches dict files and hyphenated words

• supports nonstandard hyphenation patterns