ASasicsp·Dec 5, 2020Submission
Spylls: Hunspell Ported to Python
18 points · Open discussionzverok
spylls
Python2020–2020
zverok / spylls
spylls
Pure Python spell-checker, (almost) full port of Hunspell
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2Mentions
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298GitHub stars
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What it is
Pure Python spell-checker, (almost) full port of Hunspell
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Observed mentions: 2020-12-04 01:26:30 UTC to 2020-12-05 13:44:04 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Dec 4, 00:00 | 2020-12-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-04 03:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 4, 03:00 | 2020-12-04 03:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-04 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 4, 06:00 | 2020-12-04 06:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-04 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 4, 09:00 | 2020-12-04 09:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-04 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 4, 12:00 | 2020-12-04 12:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-04 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 4, 15:00 | 2020-12-04 15:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-04 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 4, 18:00 | 2020-12-04 18:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-04 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 4, 21:00 | 2020-12-04 21:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 5, 00:00 | 2020-12-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-05 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 5, 03:00 | 2020-12-05 03:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-05 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 5, 06:00 | 2020-12-05 06:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-05 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 5, 09:00 | 2020-12-05 09:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-05 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 5, 12:00 | 2020-12-05 12:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-05 15:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI suppose, it is worth giving a shout-out to a recent Hunspell port to Python by Zverok: https://github.com/zverok/spylls, this description from Github sums it up nicely:
> Hunspell is a long-living, complicated, almost undocumented piece of software, and it was our feeling that the significant part of human knowledge is somehow "locked" in a form of a large C++ project. That's how Spylls was born: as an attempt to "unlock" it, via well-structured and well-documented implementation in a high-level language.
It's incredible how much work has been done (along with documenting algorithms!) in this one-man project.
In A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)