[Zope] spellchecker

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi,

Am So, den 10.10.2004 schrieb garry saddington um 11:43:
...

> > Well. You could at least provide the URL to the product you are talking
> > about. Have you tried to contact the author?
> http://zope.org/Members/noa/folder_contents
> I can't find out how to contact the author that is why I have asked on the 
> list.

This looks neither released nor maintained :-)
And from unpacking the archive you find:

0 bytes readme.txt
*.pyc files which you should remove anyway

Im especially faszinated by the line:
ispell = os.popen("echo " + word + " | ispell -a")

which promises exceptionally performance ;)
(It might even open security holes if the word
split has flaws)


> I have textareas that take input from users and I want them to be able to 
> spell check their input.
> regards
> garry

In the simplest form I'd use an external method
like this:

import os

spellcheck(self,checktext=""):
    spellin,spellout=os.popen2("ispell -a","rw")
    spellout.readline() # read away banner
    output=[]
    for word in checktext.split():
        spellin.write(word+"\n")
        spellin.flush()
        output.append((word,spellout.readline().strip()))
    spellin.close()
    spellout.close()
    return output

which takes a plain text as input and responds with list
of tuples with the word and ispells answer which
you can format for output using a python script.

Sure this is a first shot and can be improved in many
ways (word-split, buffer management etc.)

Regards
Tino