Open Source Python Text Processing Software

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A Python Scripting plugin for Notepad++. Complete easy script access to all of the editor's features (including absolutely everything in Scintilla). Configurable menus and toolbar options, assign shortcuts to scripts.

Utilities for general- and special-purpose documentation. Includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.

Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. It can retrieve files for comparison from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories.

PDF-Shuffler is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a frontend for python-pyPdf.

Bundles Portable Python (with PyGTK) and Meld together in an easy to use installer. This allows you to not have to worry about setting up Python or PyGTK and you can keep Meld's Python separate from other Python installations on your machine. ** NOTE ** Meld 3.11 and later now have official installers, hence this project is no longer supported. You can download the new installer here: https://download.gnome.org/binaries/win32/meld/. You should uninstall the old 1.8 version before upgrading.

DrPython is a highly customizable cross-platform ide to aid programming in Python. It was developed with teaching in mind, and has a clean, simple interface. It is written in Python, using wxPython as the gui.

The EpiDoc Collaborative is developing specifications and tools for standards-based, digital publication and interchange of scholarly and educational editions of documentary and literary texts like inscriptions and papyri. The link below will take you to the EpiDoc home page on this site.

PyRtfLib is a python library that provides a parser and few translators like rtf to html and to simple text.

Tomoe is a handwriting character recognition engine.

PyWord is a powerful and flexible text editor written in Python. It aims to be similar to other, existing editors (including emacs), but has several unique features as well.

A python module that provides algorithms for advanced search - basically all you need to build a search engine.

Alphabetizer lets anyone take a list of words or sentences and arranged them in alphabetical order easily. Alphabetizer is a tool that takes a list of words or phrases and arranged them in alphabetical order. This tool is useful for organizing information, creating glossaries, sorting names, or any task where the items in a list need to be in alphabetical order. Overall, Alphabetizer can save time and effort by quickly organizing information and making it easier to read and comprehend.

DocLite is a simple documentation authoring system, it produces multi-page HTML output (like this document) in a style similar to that found in the Linux HOTWTOs or other DocBook created documents.

PyRTF is a pure python module for the efficient creation of RTF documents.

Pyana is a extension module that allows Python programs to interface with the Apache Software Foundation's Xalan XSLT transformation engine.

SilverCity is a lexing package, based on Scintilla, that can provide lexical analysis for over 20 programming and markup langauges. Scripting language bindings currently exist for Python.

TeXML is an XML vocabulary for TeX. The processor transforms the TeXML markup into the TeX markup, escaping special and out-of-encoding characters. The intended audience is developers who automatically generate [La]TeX or ConTeXt files.

pyfiglet is a full port of the FIGlet specification (http://www.figlet.org/) into pure python. It takes ASCII text and renders it in ASCII art fonts. It can be used on the commandline or as an Object Oriented driver library in your own programs.

Teng is a general purpose templating engine written in C++ (i.e. library). It is also available as Python module or PHP extension. The main idea of teng is to strictly separate application logic from presentation layer. Widely used on dynamic web sites.

Buzz is a fast graphical editor for XML files with special support for OPML. Using the OPML convergence tools it will edit about any outline and many forms of indented text, including Python. In fact, Buzz was written with Buzz! It is written in P

Concurrence is a networked file editing program that enables multiple people to modify a document simultaneously. It is written entirely in Python, and uses the wxPython library for the GUI and the Twisted library for networking.

A framework for creating freeware Truetype fonts based on Metafont language. Glyph outlines and bitmaps are converted, using a number of utilities, into TTF and BDF format.

The Python scripts for the conversion from the Chinese Pinyin transcription(ISO 7098) to International Phonetic Alphabet(IPA), comprised of a core module for developers and a flexible GUI application for the common end-users on Modern Chinese phonetics.

Project Homepage is moved to http://cjkpython.i18n.org/