Hi, I have just uploaded the latest sources of PyHyphen (http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/PyHyphen). The tarball also contains Windows binaries of the C extension for Python 2.4 and 2.5. So most Windows users will get going without compiling. Just enter the usual 'python setup.py install'.
There are many bug fixes both in the Python modules on top as well as in the C extension that uses a new release of the underlying hyphenation library (hyphen-2.3.1). Further, I have added a module 'dictools' for easy download and installation of dictionaries (see below). Finally, a script for easy testing of the hyphenation functionality with large wordlists and multiple dictionaries has been added. Dictionaries are installed on the fly and everything is logged. The default dir for dictionaries and the default repository to download dictionaries are configurable, so that one can use existing dictionaries, e.g., from an OpenOffice installation. The package also includes and installs the module 'textwrap2' which adds a hyphenation feature to the standard module textwrap. Code example: from hyphen import hyphenator from hyphen.dictools import * # Download and install some dictionaries in the default directory using the default # repository, usually the OpenOffice website for lang in ['de_DE', 'fr_FR', 'en_UK', 'hu_HU']: if not is_installed(lang): install(lang) # Create some hyphenators h_de = hyphenator('de_DE') h_en = hyphenator('en_US') h_hu = hyphenator('hu_HU') # Now hyphenate some words print h_hu.inserted(u'asszonnyal') 'asz=szony=nyal' print h_en.pairs('beautiful') [[u'beau', u'tiful'], [u'beauti', u'ful']] print h_en.wrap('beautiful', 6) [u'beau-', u'tiful'] print h_en.wrap('beautiful', 7) [u'beauti-', u'ful'] from textwrap2 import fill print fill('very long text...', width = 40, use_hyphens = h_en) My thanks go to those who helped enormously with advice, suggestions, criticism and Windows builds. Regards Leo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list