Thanks for your reply to Shashwat Anand & thomas.sub( Help on finding word
is valid as per English Dictionary through python )
Let me try.
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:57 PM, wrote:
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> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Alan G Isaac
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:12:21 -0400
> Subject: Re: best way to increment an IntVar?
> On 6/24/2010 1:59 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>
>> It is NOT a numeric "variable" in Python realms.
>>
>
> Sure, but why does it not behave more like one?
> It seems both obvious and desirable, so I'm
> guessing there is a good reason not to do it.
>
> So var+=increment can't be used because Python would rebind the
>> name
>> var to a new object
>>
>
> import Tkinter as tk
>>>>
>>>> class IntVar2(tk.IntVar):
>>>>
>>> ... def __iadd__(self, val):
> ... self.set(self.get()+val)
> ... return self
> ...
>
>> root = tk.Tk()
>>>> myintvar2 = IntVar2()
>>>> temp = myintvar2
>>>> myintvar2 += 5
>>>> print(myintvar2.get(),myintvar2 is temp)
>>>>
>>> (5, True)
>
> Alan Isaac
>
>
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> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Shashwat Anand
> To: Thomas Jollans
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:50:55 +0530
> Subject: Re: Help on finding word is valid as per English Dictionary
> through python
> why do you need that ?
> which platform are you onto ?
>
> On OSX you can use 'DictionaryServices' API
> eg.,
>
> import sys
> import DictionaryServices
> word = " ".join(sys.argv[1:])
> print DictionaryServices.DCSCopyTextDefinition(None, word, (0, len(word)))
>
> Gives the meaning of the input word (works with python 2.5)
>
> You can use this script for Vi (~/.vimrc) if you want, control+a will do a
> spell check.
>
> " Toggle Spell-Check
> set spell spelllang=
> function ToggleSpellCheck()
> if &spelllang == "en"
> set spelllang=
> else
> set spelllang=en
> endif
> endfunction
> command! ToggleSpellChecking call ToggleSpellCheck()
> nmap :ToggleSpellChecking
>
> But again am not aware of your use case.
>
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
>
>> On 06/25/2010 03:30 PM, anu python wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I have a text file ,
>> > a.txt
>> >
>> >
>> > this is a lcose button
>> >
>> > where u can observer "lcose" is not a valid word.It's typing
>> > mistake.Actual word is "close".
>> >
>> > How can i check that each word entered in txt file having correct
>> > meaningful words as per English Dictionary.
>> >
>> > Do you have any package which can check "English Dictionary"
>>
>> In a pinch, I might use open("/usr/share/dict/words", "r") as a
>> thesaurus, and check for words in there. Read the file and create a
>> giant frozenset or something. For something a bit more civilized, I
>> expect that there's a python package interfacing at least one of
>> (ispell, aspell, hunspell, myspell) (and what they're all called.
>>
>> There is a multitude of "English dictionaries
