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PyGlossary - A tool for converting dictionary files

PyGlossary is a tool for working with dictionary databases (glossaries) Basic Usage:

PyGI (Gtk3) Interface:
To open PyGlossary window:
pyglossary
PyGI is the default interface (so you never need to use "--ui=gtk" option) If PyGI was not found (not installed), then PyGlossary will fallback to Tkinter interface.
Tkinter Interface:
To open PyGlossary window:
pyglossary --ui=tk
Usually good for Windows and Mac OS X
Command Line Interface:
To show this help:
pyglossary --help
To show program version:
pyglossary --version
To Convert:
pyglossary INPUT_FILE OUTPUT_FILE
To Reverse:
pyglossary INPUT_FILE OUTPUT_FILE.txt --reverse
Input and output files formats will be detected from extensions. Except that you explicitly specify input or output format, for example:
pyglossary mydic.utf8 mydic.ifo --read-format=tabfile pyglossary mydic.utf8 mydic.ifo --read-format tabfile pyglossary mydic.ifo mydic.utf8 --write-format=tabfile pyglossary mydic.ifo mydic.utf8 --write-format tabfile

General Options:

Verbosity:
-v0 or '--verbosity 0' for critical errors only -v1 or '--verbosity 1' for errors only -v2 or '--verbosity 2' for errors and warnings -v3 or '--verbosity 3' for errors, warnings and info -v4 or '--verbosity 4' for debug mode
Appearance:

--no-progress-bar and --no-color, useful for Windows (non-Unix) command line

pyglossary INPUT_FILE OUTPUT_FILE [-vN] [--read-format=FORMAT ] [--write-format=FORMAT]
[--sort|--no-sort] [--direct|--indirect] [--sort-cache-size=2000] [--utf8-chec k|--no-utf8-check] [--lower|--no-lower] [--read-options=READ_OPTIONS] [--write-options=WRITE_OPTION S]

Command line arguments and options (and arguments for options) is parsed with GNU getopt method You can also just type extension of output file instead of full path, if you want to create with the sam e input file name with another extension. For example:

pyglossary mydic.ifo txt

pyglossary mydic.ifo mydic.txt

ample:"

pyglossary mydic.ifo mydic.txt.gz

or

pyglossary mydic.ifo txt.gz

And if the input file has these extensions (gz, bz2, zip), it will be extracted before loading

Supported input formats:

| Description | Extentions

-------------------+---------------------------------+---------------
BabylonBgl | Babylon (bgl) | .bgl CC-CEDICT | CC-CEDICT | .u8 Csv | CSV | .csv Dicformids | DictionaryForMIDs | .mids DictOrg | DICT.org file format (.index) | .index ABBYYLingvoDSL | ABBYY Lingvo DSL (dsl) | .dsl Edlin | Editable Linked List of Entries | .edlin GettextPo | Gettext Source (po) | .po LingoesLDF | Lingoes Source (LDF) | .ldf OctopusMdict | Octopus MDict | .mdx OctopusMdictSource | Octopus MDict Source | .mtxt Sdict | Sdictionary Binary(dct) | .dct Stardict | StarDict (ifo) | .ifo Tabfile | Tabfile (txt, dic) | .txt .tab .dic WikipediaDump | Wikipedia Dump(Static HTML) | .wiki Xdxf | XDXF | .xdxf .xml

Supported output formats:

| Description | Extentions

-------------------+---------------------------------+----------------
AppleDict | AppleDict Source (xml) | .xml BabylonSource | Babylon Source (gls) | .gls .babylon Csv | CSV | .csv Dicformids | DictionaryForMIDs | .mids DictOrg | DICT.org file format (.index) | .index Edlin | Editable Linked List of Entries | .edlin Freedict | FreeDict (tei) | .tei GettextPo | Gettext Source (po) | .po LingoesLDF | Lingoes Source (LDF) | .ldf OctopusMdictSource | Octopus MDict Source | .mtxt Omnidic | Omnidic | .omni .omnidic SdictSource | Sdictionary Source (sdct) | .sdct Sql | SQL | .sql Stardict | StarDict (ifo) | .ifo Tabfile | Tabfile (txt, dic) | .txt .tab .dic Treedict | TreeDict | .tree .treedict

December 2019 PyGlossary 3.2.1