Python bindings released (Was: Python bindings for Snowball)

A first version is now available under

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pystemmer/

The sources are available in the CVS. Because of some
SF problems I could not make a tarball yet.

Andreas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Boulton" <richard <at> tartarus.org>
To: "Andreas Jung" <andreas <at> andreas-jung.com>
Cc: <snowball-discuss <at> lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 17:35
Subject: Re: [Snowball-discuss] Python bindings for Snowball

> On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 20:40, Andreas Jung wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I found Snowball so cool that I have written Python bindings for
Snowball
> > - with support for all nine Snowball stemmers !
> I count twelve stemmers now...
>
> > I will release the bindings soon on Sourceforge. If anyone is interested
> > in a pre-release, let me know.
>
> Excellent!  I've just done a bit of work on making a simple and
> consistent interface for C: consisting of three functions:
>
> struct sb_stemmer *
> sb_stemmer_create(const char * language);
>
> void
> sb_stemmer_release(struct sb_stemmer * stemmer);
>
> const char *
> sb_stemmer_stem(struct sb_stemmer * stemmer,
>                 const char * word, int size);
>
>
> (This code is in the libstemmer directory in the CVS - the Makefile
> needs tweaking so that it compiles the code as a library, but other than
> that the work is done.)
>
> I'd like to collaborate, to ensure that the bindings for all languages
> are as consistent as possible.  Definitely interested in a pre-release.
>
> I'd also like to try and keep all snowball related material easy to find
> - so ideally I'd like to see the bindings being added to the website.
> I'd be very happy to help set this up.
>
> --
> Richard
>
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