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serpento (for the lack of better name) is a dict (RFC 2229) server
written in python.
License: GPL, with the addition: It can be linked with
whatever you want, without any restrictions.
Welcome to the world of "your opensource license is better
than mine" :-)
Requirenments:
- Python 2.0 (does NOT work with Python 1.5, could probably
be forced to work with python 1.6 with some effort)
- unix-like operating system (so far tested only on linux)
- some programs from tools/ directory rely on konwert to
convert between different encodings
(http://www.kki.net.pl/qrczak/programy/linux/konwert/)
Features:
- full UNICODE support (well, not full yet :-))
- can use raw dict file (the one with %h %d) and automatically
format output in plain text.
- dictionaries can be compressed with dictzip(1)
- uses the same index file as dictd
- supports following strategies:
exact Match words exactly
prefix Match prefixes
suffix Match suffixes
substring Match substring occurring anywhere in word
re POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions (-)
fnmatch fnmatch-like (* ? as wildcards) (-)
soundex Match using SOUNDEX algorithm (--)
metaphone metaphone algorithm (--)
lev Match words within Levenshtein distance one (-)
(-) : does not work correctly with UNICODE characters outside
ASCII range (yet)
(--): cannot in principle work correctly with UNICODE characters
outside ASCII range, because it is designed for English words only.
- easily extendible with new types of databases
- now tries to be case insensitive, for most characters with sanely
defined upper/lowercase conversion (U+0131 LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I
being a prime counterexample)
Drawbacks:
- early version
- no documentation (see comments in source :-))
- first starting takes significant time
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