Hyphenation algorithm in Python?

[Robin Becker]

In article <8tabce024v5 at news1.newsguy.com>, Alex Martelli
<aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes
>"Stefan Franke" <spamfranke at bigfoot.de> wrote in message
>news:39f983fd.3380109 at news.btx.dtag.de...
>> I'm looking for a hyphenation algorithm in Python. On parnassus I found
>> an interface to libhnj, but since I'm on a Win32 machine, I'm not able
>> to compile it.
>>
>> Does anyone know about a Python-only algo or an Win32 compiled
>> version of libhnj?.
>
>I have one such algorithm, but it's for Italian (exploiting the huge
>regularity of Italian hyphenation rules) and I'm sure it will not
>generalize to any other natural language.  What natural language
>did you have in mind...?
>
>
>Alex
...
I have the hnj from libart algorithm working; I have only got the us
dict set up though. That's what came from libhnj. I got this from
Daniel Yoo <dyoo at hkn.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> who was working on the python
interface.
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Robin Becker