synonyms

A python library for checking if a word has a synonym.

Unlike a lot of the other libraries out there, this one is not tied to a specific data source. Instead you supply the data from your favorite source.

Use

Load a synonyms object from the factory. Accepts either a string with the synonym file contents (see below), a file pointer, or a list of lists that contain the synonyms.

>>> from synonyms import load
>>> s = load(open('syn.txt'))
>>> s.match('United States')
'usa'
>>> s.match('United States', all=True)
['USA', 'United States', 'us', 'the states']
>>> 'usa' in s:
True

Format

The synonyms file is roughly the same format that Solr uses.

Comments start the line with #

Synonyms are separated by commas. The first word is considered the master synonym.

Example:

# This is a comment
USA, United States, us, the states
foo, bar, baz