About

This is a trimmed down version of sdictviewer to be used as a library. I've made no modifications to it beyond ripping out files that weren't needed.

http://sdictviewer.sourceforge.net/

Usage

import sys
import sdictviewer.formats.dct.sdict as sdict
import sdictviewer.dictutil

dictionary = sdict.SDictionary( 'webster_1913.dct' )
dictionary.load()

start_word = sys.argv[1]

found = False

for item in dictionary.get_word_list_iter( start_word ):
	try:
		if start_word == str( item ):
			instance, definition = item.read_articles()[0]
			print "%s: %s" % ( item, definition )
			found = True
			break
	except:
		continue

if not found:
	print "No definition for '%s'." % start_word

dictionary.close()

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Igor Tkach