uwotm8

Converting American English to British English - a tool to automatically convert American English spelling to British English spelling in your text and code files.

• Github repository: https://github.com/i-dot-ai/uwotm8/
• Documentation https://i-dot-ai.github.io/uwotm8/

Installation

pip install uwotm8

Quick Start

Convert a single file:

uwotm8 example.txt

Convert only comments and docstrings in Python files:

uwotm8 --comments-only my_script.py

Read from stdin and write to stdout:

echo "I love the color gray." | uwotm8
# Output: "I love the colour grey."

Use in Python code:

from uwotm8 import convert_american_to_british_spelling

en_gb_str = convert_american_to_british_spelling("Our American neighbors' dialog can be a bit off-color.")
print(en_gb_str)
# Output: "Our American neighbours' dialogue can be a bit off-colour."

Features

• Converts common American English spellings to British English
• Preserves words in special contexts (code blocks, URLs, hyphenated terms)
• Maintains an ignore list of technical terms that shouldn't be converted
• Preserves original capitalization patterns
• Supports Python file mode to convert only comments and docstrings, leaving code unchanged

For full documentation, examples, and advanced usage, please visit the documentation site.

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