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.project

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+	<name>pyenchant</name>
+	<comment></comment>
+	<projects>
+	</projects>
+	<buildSpec>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.python.pydev.PyDevBuilder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+	</buildSpec>
+	<natures>
+		<nature>org.python.pydev.pythonNature</nature>
+	</natures>
+</projectDescription>

MANIFEST.in

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+
+include enchant/enchant.i
+include enchant/enchant.h
+include LICENSE.txt
+recursive-include tools *
+

README.txt

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+
+pyenchant:  Python bindings for the Enchant spellchecker
+========================================================
+
+This package provides a set of Python language bindings for the Enchant
+spellchecking library.
+
+
+What is Enchant?
+----------------
+
+Enchant is used to check the spelling of words and suggest corrections
+for words that are miss-spelled.  It can use many popular spellchecking
+packages to perform this task, including ispell, aspell and MySpell.  It
+is quite flexible at handling multiple dictionaries and multiple
+languages.
+
+More information is available on the Enchant website:
+
+    http://www.abisource.com/enchant/
+
+
+How do I use it?
+----------------
+
+For Windows users, there is an executable installer program which can be
+used to install the software with a minimum of effort.  Other users will
+need to install from source.
+
+Once the software is installed, python's on-line help facilities can
+get you started.  Launch python and issue the following commands:
+
+    >>> import enchant
+    >>> help(enchant)
+
+
+Installing with the Windows Installer
+-------------------------------------
+
+Download and run the windows installer program.  It will automatically
+detect your python installation and set up pyenchant accordingly.
+
+WARNING:  if you have another version of enchant installed on your
+          system, the windows installer may cause it to stop working.
+          It is recommended that you install pyenchant from source
+          in this case.
+
+The windows installer version provides a pre-compiled enchant library
+as well as several supporting libraries.  Several commonly-used
+dictionaries are installed into:
+
+    <YOUR_PYTHON_ROOT>\Lib\site-packages\enchant\ispell.
+
+Additional language dictionaries are available for download from:
+
+    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/
+
+The required file will be named 'abispell-LANG.i386.zip' where LANG is
+the appropriate language tag.  Download the zip file, and extract the
+contained .hash file into the above directory.  The new language should
+be detected automatically.
+
+
+Installing from Source
+----------------------
+
+First, you must already have the enchant library installed on our system.
+You will also need access to a C compiler.
+
+This package is distributed using the standard Python 'distutils' framework.
+If you have the necessary prerequisites, all that should be required to
+install is to execute the following command in the current directory:
+
+    python setup.py install
+
+
+
+Who is responsible for all this?
+--------------------------------
+
+The credit for Enchant itself goes to Dom Lachowicz.  Find out more details
+on the Enchant website listed above.  Full marks to Dom for producing such
+a high-quality library.
+
+The heavy lifting of creating language bindings was taken care of using
+SWIG, an excellent open-source tool designed for just this purpose:
+
+    http://www.swig.org/
+
+Finally, the glue to put it all together was written by me, Ryan Kelly.
+I needed a decent spellchecker for another project I am working on, and
+all the solutions turned up by google were either extremely non-portable
+(e.g. opening a pipe to ispell) or had completely disappeared from the web
+(what happened to SnakeSpell?)  It was also a great excuse to teach myself
+to use SWIG, and even a little bit of the Python/C API.
+
+Comments, suggestions, bugs and other feedback can be directed to:
+
+    rynklly@users.sourceforge.net
+
+

TODO.txt

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+
+
+  * make sure all help messages fit in the console
+  * raise Exception/Warning if no providers are found
+  * find a way to avoid using the registry to record dict locations
+  * check with the enchant guys about free_dict corrupting the
+    cache of dict objects
+