Pyphen

Pyphen is a pure Python module to hyphenate text using existing Hunspell hyphenation dictionaries.

https://github.com/Kozea/Pyphen

This module is a fork of python-hyphenator, written by Wilbert Berendsen.

https://code.google.com/p/python-hyphenator/

Many dictionaries are included in pyphen, they come from the LibreOffice git repository and are distributed under GPL, LGPL and/or MPL. See the dictionaries and the libreoffice's repository for more details.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/tree/

Usage:

import pyphen pyphen.languagefallback('nlNLvariant1') 'nlNL' 'nlNL' in pyphen.LANGUAGES True dic = pyphen.Pyphen(lang='nlNL') dic.inserted('lettergrepen') 'let-ter-gre-pen' dic.wrap('autobandventieldopje', 11) ('autoband-', 'ventieldopje') for pair in dic.iterate('Amsterdam'): ... print(pair) ... ('Amster', 'dam') ('Am', 'sterdam')

Features:

100% pure Python with no dependencies
a lot of included dictionaries
caches dict files and hyphenated words
supports nonstandard hyphenation patterns

License:

Pyphen is released under the GPL 2.0+/LGPL 2.1+/MPL 1.1 tri-license. See COPYING.GPL, COPYING.LGPL and COPYING.MPL for more details.