A Python parser for the CC-CEDICT Chinese-English dictionary

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A parser for the CC-CEDICT Chinese-English dictionary.

Install

PIP

https://pypi.org/project/cedict-utils/

pip install cedict-utils

Usage

$ python
>>> from cedict_utils.cedict import CedictParser
>>> parser = CedictParser()
>>> entries = parser.parse()
>>> for e in entries:
...     print(e)
... 
..
龟缩 (龜縮) - gui1 suo1
龟背竹 (龜背竹) - gui1 bei4 zhu2
龟船 (龜船) - gui1 chuan2
..
>>> entries[200].simplified
'敦'
>>> entries[200].traditional
'㪟'
>>> entries[200].pinyin
'dun1'
>>> entries[200].raw_line
'㪟 敦 [dun1] /variant of 敦[dun1]/'
>>> entries[200].meanings
['variant of 敦[dun1]']
>>> 

REPO

1. Create virtualenv.

python3 -m venv ~/.virtualenvs/cedict-utils

2. Activate venv.

source ~/.virtualenvs/cedict-utils/bin/activate

3. Install requirements.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Dictionary

If you want to download a specific dictionary:

wget -O - https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/export/cedict/cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.txt.gz | gunzip > data/cedict_ts.u8

Then

>>> parser.read_file()

Tests

Running tests

$ make test
pytest
================================================================ test session starts ================================================================
platform linux -- Python 3.6.8, pytest-3.2.3, py-1.4.34, pluggy-0.4.0
rootdir: /Development/cedict-utils, inifile:
collected 8 items                                                                                                                                    

tests/test_cedict.py ........

============================================================= 8 passed in 0.09 seconds ==============================================================

Resources

• Cedict project https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=cc-cedict