CHAMD

Conversion and cleaning of CHILDES CHA files into PaQu Plaintext Metadata Format (to convert to Alpino).

Installation and usage

pip install chamd
chamd --help

Running from project:

python -m chamd --help

Import as library

This way the library can be used to read CHAT file (contents) from an external application.

from chamd import ChatReader
reader = ChatReader()
chat = reader.read_file('example.cha') # or read_string

for item in chat.metadata:
    print(item)
for line in chat.lines:
    for item in line.metadata:
        print(item)
    print(line.text)

Upload to PyPi

python setup.py sdist
twine upload dist/*

Run tests

python -m unittest discover tests/