sutton-signwriting-core

sutton-signwriting-core is a Python library that supports general processing of SignWriting text

This library supports both Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW) and SignWriting in Unicode (SWU) character sets, , along with the associated query languages and style string. See draft-slevinski-formal-signwriting for detailed specification.

Author: Steve Slevinski
Channel: YouTube
Support: Patreon
Donate: sutton-signwriting.io

Useful Links

• Source: GitHub
• PyPI: pypi.org/project/sutton-signwriting-core
• Documentation: sutton-signwriting.io/core-py
• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Discussion: Gitter

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Installation

pip install sutton-signwriting-core

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Usage

from sutton_signwriting_core import (
    fsw_is_type, fsw_parse_symbol,
    fsw_to_coord, key_to_id
)

# FSW is type
fsw_is_type('S10000', 'hand')
True

# FSW parse symbol
fsw_parse_symbol('S10000500x500-C')
{'symbol': 'S10000', 'coord': [500, 500], 'style': '-C'}

# FSW to coord
fsw_to_coord('500x500')
[500, 500]

# FSW symbol key to 16-bit ID
key_to_id('S10000')
1

All functions are fully typed, validated, and documented with Python-style docstrings (Google format). Run help(swu_to_fsw) for details.

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Development

Development Steps

# 1. Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/sutton-signwriting/core-py.git
cd core-py

# 2. Install Poetry (if you don’t have it)
curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

# 3. Create the virtual environment and install deps
poetry install

# 4. Activate the environment (Poetry 2+)
poetry env activate
#   (copy and execute the returned command)

# 5. Run the test suite
pytest -v

# 6. Code coverage and HTML report
pytest --cov
pytest -v --cov=sutton_signwriting_core --cov-report=html
pytest --cov=sutton_signwriting_core --cov-report=xml

# 7. Lint / format / type-check
black .
ruff check .
mypy src

# 8. Update Version string
pyproject.toml:version = "1.0.0"
src/sutton_signwriting_core/__init__.py:__version__ = "1.0.0"
sphinx-docs/source/conf.py:release = "1.0.0"
sphinx-docs/source/conf.py:version = "1.0"

# 9. Create HTML documentation
cd sphinx-docs
sphinx-build -b html -a -E source/ ../docs/

# 10. Build distributions
poetry build

# 11. Publish to pypi
poetry publish

# 12. Git commit, push, and tag
git commit -m "message"
git push origin main
git tag v1.0.0 && git push --tags

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License

MIT – see LICENSE for details.

Maintained by Steve Slevinski – Slevinski@signwriting.org

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SignWriting Resources

• Website: signwriting.org
• Resources: sutton-signwriting.io
• Wikipedia: SignWriting
• Grokipedia SignWriting
• Forum: swlist
• Facebook: Sutton SignWriting Group