[aspell-devel] aspell C API

[Justin Ryan]

Hola,

I have been working on a python wrapper for the GNU Aspell C APIs.  To 
date, I seem to have a basic bit of functionality surrounding 
AspellConfig and AspellSpeller, but noticed some classes/interfaces in 
aspell.h which are not documented and could (perhaps) be useful to me 
and my users.

The most outstanding example that I see is the DocumentSpeller.  I was 
originally planning to write something like this in python, but now 
hope to make yours available to python.  I noticed some other 
undocumented structures which seemed as if they may be internally used 
by AspellSpeller, AspellConfig, and DocumentSpeller, i.e.:

  - AspellMutableContainer
  - AspellKeyInfo
  - AspellDictInfo
  - AspellModuleInfo

I'm not exactly sure (yet) what these guys do or are for, and probably 
won't implement anything which lets me talk to them from Python unless 
I find that it is advantageous somehow.

In any case, I thought that perhaps you guys could extend me a small 
bit of help - at least with the DocumentSpeller class.  Also, I'm not 
sure why - but if I try to do anything with the return values of:

  aspell_speller_store_replacement()
  aspell_speller_add_to_personal()
  aspell_speller_add_to_session()

Python dies with a Bus Error.  For the time being, I am discarding the 
return - but that just feels like bad news. ;)

If you could clear up a few minor points for me, I may be able (and am 
definitely willing!) to help extend the documentation for aspell.  I 
was also planning on writing a paper or article of some sort on the 
trials and tribulations of developing this module. ;)

pyaspell should be hosted at savannah soon, but the latest source can 
be found at http://jryan.gerf.org/pyaspell-0.5.tbz2.

Cheers!

-=JR