lig / pystardict

Library for manipulating StarDict dictionaries from within Python

pystardict

Home page

https://github.com/lig/pystardict

Authors

Serge Matveenko [email protected] and contributors: https://github.com/lig/pystardict/graphs/contributors.

Installation

pip install pystardict

How to use

For working example look into examples directory at the demo.py file. Examples are installed in the /local/prefix/share/pystardict directory, where /local/prefix is your installation prefix.

How to contribute

Fill free to report any bugs or send pull requests on Github: https://github.com/lig/pystardict.

Respect PEP8.

pystardict's Issues

Exception: ifo has invalid format

Get error when trying to run the following code on Windows 10 and Python3.11:

import os
from pystardict import Dictionary

dict1 = Dictionary(os.path.join('./dict/quick_russian-english'))

can not run demo.py file

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Release new version

Library doesn't support multiple definitions

Some of the dictionaries files out there can have several meanings for certain word. In current implementation in such case all the other meanings will be lost, as the word is used as a dict key. For example there is a dictionary called 'LegalThesaurus', which can be downloaded form stardict project webpage, which have two different definition for word 'moratorium'.

Attribute 'message' does not exist in IOErrors in Python 3.5

I encountered such an exception. It said it cannot find a *.dict file while actually a *.dict.dz is there.

>>> d = Dictionary('DrEye-jc')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pystardict.py", line 647, in open_file
    return open(regular, 'rb')
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'DrEye-jc.dict'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pystardict.py", line 371, in __init__
    self._file = open_file(dict_filename, dict_filename_dz)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pystardict.py", line 649, in open_file
    warn(e.message)
AttributeError: 'FileNotFoundError' object has no attribute 'message'

I then read the code and found it may be the problem of open_file function, where statements like warn(e.message) exists. Some tests I did indicated that expressions like IOError("abc").message work in Python 2.x but 3.x. So there may need some conditional tests before warnings to ensure the compatibility.

Thank you for your great work and hope for a fix.

python 3 is not supported ?

File "/home/ana/data2/iz3/izhuomi_engines/libs/pystardict.py", line 405, in init
self.idx = _StarDictIdx(dict_prefix=filename_prefix, container=self)
File "/home/ana/data2/iz3/izhuomi_engines/libs/pystardict.py", line 159, in init
matched_records = re.findall(record_pattern, self._file)
File "/home/ana/data1/anaconda3/envs/pds/lib/python3.9/re.py", line 241, in findall
return _compile(pattern, flags).findall(string)
TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object

Not able to look up definitions using synonyms?

Looking at the code leads me to the impression that this library is not able to take advantage of syn files. Is this correct? If so, it would be good to fix this