ANN: Pyrex wrapper for the Aspell API

[Gary Bishop]

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/uncpythontools/aspell-1.0.zip?download

"""A Pyrex wrapper for the aspell api.

Pyrex is ****SO**** great! I wrote this in about 1 hour from the
Aspell doc. I spent most of that hour figuring out that I needed to
set the Aspell prefix to get it to work!

Intended usage is:

1) create a spell_checker object for each document.

2) check a word by calling the check method

3) if you get 0 back indicating a misspelling, use the suggest method
   to get a list of possible correct spellings.

4) tell aspell about the correct choice so it can learn from your
   errors using the store_replacement method

5) add words to either the session dictionary or to your personal
   dictionary using the add_to_session or add_to_personal methods.

import aspell
sc = aspell.spell_checker()
word = 'flarg'
if not sc.check(word):
  print word, 'is incorrect'
  print 'suggestions include:', sc.suggest(word)

To get this to build and work on Windows I downloaded the Windows
version of aspell from http://aspell.net/win32/. I got the Full
Installer, a dictionary, and the libraries for MS VisualC++ as
separate downloads. I let the first two go to their default locations
and I unpacked the zip file for the last into the C:\Program
Files\Aspell top directory. Then I copied the aspell-15.dll from
C:\Program Files\Aspell\bin to a folder on my path.

You will also, of course, need Pyrex from
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/.

With the above completed the standard 'python setup.py install' should
build and install the extension.

23 May 2004
Gary Bishop

"""