readmdict

Read mdx/mdd files (repacking of readmdict from mdict-analysis)

This is a repacking of readmdict.py in https://github.com/csarron/mdict-analysis. All credit goes to the original author(s).

Prerequisite `python-lzo`

If python-lzo is not present, you' ll see "LZO compression support is not available" when running readmdict.

pip install python-lzo
# or poetry add python-lzo

In Windows without a functioning C++ environment, you won't be able to install python-lzo via pip. Head to https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#python-lzo. Download and install python-lzo whl for your python version.

Installation

pip install readmdict
# or poetry add readmdict

Usage

Command line

Browse a mdx or mdd file and print its meta information

readmdict

python -m readmdict

Print meta info of a file file.mdx

readmdict file.mdx

python -m readmdict file.mdx

Print a short summary

readmdict -h

python -m readmdict -h

In Python code

from readmdict import MDX, MDD

filename = "some.mdx"
headwords = [*MDX(filename).header]
print(headwords[:10])  # fisrt 10 in bytes format
for hdw in headwords[:10]:
	print(hdw.decode())   # fisrt 10 in string format

items = [*MDX(filename).items()]
for key, val in items[:10]:
	print(key.decode(), val.decode())  # first 10 entries

# read an mdd file
filename = "some.mdd"
items = MDD(filename).items()
idx = 0
for filename, content in items:
  idx += 1
  if idx > 10:
    break
	print(filename.decode(), content.decode())  # first 10 entries