Hook for collecting files for PyEnchant

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I've added PyEnchant?-1.3.0 to my program and cannot get PyInstaller? 1.3 to package it. PyEnchant? stores its dictionaries in C: \Python24\Lib\site-packages\enchant\share\enchant\myspell\. The files in here are plain text files: en_US.dic, en_US.aff, etc. ...

I finally found what I need to do. For the record, from ​http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=45346C4B.507... "You need to copy both the "share" and "lib" dirs from the enchant site-packages directory nto the dir of the exe. "share" contains the dictionaries themselves, while "lib" contains the enchant myspell plugin."

And Giovanni Bajo wrote:

OK. That can be taken care of using a setup program like InnoSetup?.

Anyway, I would like this to be fixed automatically by PyInstaller?. There is much infrastructure in place to pack trees of data files into the executable, unpack automatically them at startup, and let the package find them. This is the way the Tkinter support works, for instance.

Alas, that support is currently hardcoded for Tkinter. It would have to be generalized, so that one can write something like an extended import hook to handle that. It's not that hard to do, but I don't have time right now to do it.

But I would appreciate if you could open a ticket on the website reporting the exact problem and the findings you reported on the mailing list. This will make sure I won't forget about this, and I'll eventually have this fixed.

[matysek]

From pyenchat website:

Packaging PyEnchant? with py2exe

PyEnchant? depends on a large number of auxilliary files such as plugin libraries, dictionary files, etc. While py2exe does an excellent job of detecting static file dependencies, it cannot detect these files which are located at runtime.

To successfully package an application that uses PyEnchant?, these auxilliary files must be explicitly included in the "data_files" argument to the setup function. The function enchant.utils.win32_data_files returns a list of files which can be used for this purpose.

[matysek]

For windows hook is implemented in r1470.

[matysek]

On Mac OS X pyenchant from macports didn't detect hunspell dictionaries automatically. It is necessary to do the following:

enchant.set_param('enchant.myspell.dictionary.path', '/opt/local/share/hunspell')

[matysek]

Replying to matysek:

For windows hook is implemented in r1470.

However it will work only for pyenchant >= 1.6

[htgoebel]

r1671 implements

1. a fall-back for enchant < 1.6
2. a way for extending the hook (may be used for OS X)

[htgoebel]

Replying to matysek:

On Mac OS X pyenchant from macports didn't detect hunspell dictionaries automatically. It is necessary to do the following:

enchant.set_param('enchant.myspell.dictionary.path', '/opt/local/share/hunspell')

Do wee have to add this somewhere in the hook or is this just a hint for a recipe?

[htgoebel]

For the record: Code is at <​https://github.com/rfk/pyenchant/>

[htgoebel]

Rescheduling "enhancements" to release 2.1