A brazilian portuguese dictionary stored in an SQLite database for fast querying. The words in this dictionary and their meanings were collected from the AIZETA dictionary by a web crawler.
The installation process is very simple, since the whole project is a python package, you can simply clone this repository inside your project:
git clone https://github.com/nicolasleao/python_pt_dictionary.git
pip install -r python_pt_dictionary/requirements.txtOnce the installation is complete, you can import the package inside your project using:
from python_pt_dictionary import dictionaryThere are 6 available query types, you can query using the whole word, using a prefix, or using a suffix, all of these options can either be queried by a perfect match, including Accentuation, or a simplified match, that ignores accentuation.
to execute a query, use the following command:
dictionary.select('Your query', selector_command)Available selector commands:
| selector_command | description |
|---|---|
| dictionary.Selector.PERFECT | Whole word, perfect match |
| dictionary.Selector.SIMPLE | Whole word, simplified match |
| dictionary.Selector.PREFIX | Prefix, perfect match |
| dictionary.Selector.SIMPLE_PREFIX | Prefix, simplified match |
| dictionary.Selector.SUFFIX | Suffix, perfect match |
| dictionary.Selector.SIMPLE_SUFFIX | Suffix, simplified match |
Example:
result = dictionary.select("Peixe", dictionary.Selector.PERFECT)will store the instance of the word Peixe, found in the database, inside the 'result' variable, and
print(result.meaning)Will print "Animal vertebrado que vive na água e respira por guelras."