4.6.0

Changes since 4.5.0

Dependency change

We now require Python 3.9 or a later version.

Bug fixes

• Fix exception in scripts/plugin-index.py: 8a94b8c

• StarDict: Fix writing to .zip file produced empty zip, and fix bad test

• dictunformat: fix #367: add option headword_separator, default to ;

• Fixes in ui_gtk, #380 #382 #403

• AppleDict source: fix #407 missing quotes for title, and refactor duplicate codes

• DictionaryForMIDs: remove | from word when normalizing, fix punctuation regex, use Unix newlines

• StarDict: use Unix newline when reading and writing .ifo file on Windows

• Fix bug of glos.addEntryObj(dataEntry) adding empty file because tmpDataDir is not set until glos.read()

  • Set and create tmpDataDir on glos.tmpDataDir access, and add test, #424

• Fix scripts/wiki-formats.py, #428

• Dictd / Dict.org: fix exception on Windows

Features

• Support sorting by an ICU locale, see Sorting section of README

• Add Gtk4 interface --ui=gtk4 / --gtk4

  • still buggy and not as functional as Gtk3 or Tkinter interfaces

• Add flag --optimize-memory, config key optimize_memory

  • To enable entry compression on --indirect
  • Not enabled by default (it was previously always compressed)

• Allow plugin's reader.open() to return an Iterator for progress bar

  • Implement for Tabfile (reading info/metedata)
  • Implement for AppleDict Binary (reading KeyText.data)

• Add read and write support for StarDict Textual File (.xml), #348

• Add support for writing Yomichan dictionary files, #395 by @tomtung

• StarDict reader: support .syn.dz file, #410

• StarDict writer: add write option large_file, #392 #422

• StarDict reader: support dxoffsetbits=64 on read, #392 #422

• JMDict: support examples, #383

• Add read support for JMnedict, #386

• Add flag --skip-duplicate-headword, config skip_duplicate_headword, #365

  • Zim reader: remove option skip_duplicate_words, #365

• Add flag --trim-arabic-diacritics, config trim_arabic_diacritics, #366

• Add read support for IUPAC goldbook (.xml), #355

• Add write support for DIKT JSON

• StarDict writer: limit memory usage by using SQLite for idx and syn data, #409

• CSV: add newline option, defaulting to Unix-style

• Aard2 Slob writer: add option file_size_approx_check_num_entries

• Add scripts/diff-glossary and scripts/view-glossary

Improvements

• When remove HTML tags, also replace <div> with \n, #394 by @tomtung

  • Treat <div> the same way <p> is treated.

• Mobi: add mobi7-forcing switch to kindlegen command, #374 by @holyspiritomb

• Octopus MDict: ignore directories with same_dir_data_files, #362

• StarDict reader: handle definitions with mixed types/formats

• Dictfile: strip whitespaces from word and defi before going through entry filters

• BGL: strip whitespaces from word and defi before going through entry filters

• Improvement in glos.write: avoid printing exception for invalid encoding

• Remove empty logs in glos.convert

• StarDict reader: fix validating sametypesequence, and add test

• glos.convert: Allow an existing empty directory as output path

• TextGlossaryReader: replace nextPair method with nextBlock which returns resource files as third item

• ui_cmd_interactive: allow converting several times before exiting

• Change title tag for Greek from <big> to <b>

• Update language data set (langs.json)

• ui/main.py: print 1-line error instead of full exception on ImportError

• ui/main.py: Windows: try Tkinter before Gtk

• ebook_base.py: avoid shutil.move on Windows, #368

• TextGlossaryReader: fix loading info and some refactoring, #370 36b9cd8

• Entry: Allow word to be tuple in Entry(word=...)

• glos.iterInfo() return Iterator rather than Iterable

• Zim: change dependency to libzim>=1.0, and some comments

• Mobi: work with kindlegen executable in PATH directories, #401

• ui: limit the length of option comments in Format Options dialog

• ui_gtk: improvement: show (last) critical error on status bar

• ui_gtk: set intial focus

• ui_gtk: improvements in About tab

• ui_tk: revert most ttk widgets to tk because the theme doesn't match

• Add SVG icon, #414 by @proletarius101

• Prevent exception/traceback on Ctrl+C

• Optimize progress bar

• Aard2 slob: show info log before and after slobWriter.finalize(), #437

Removed features

• Remove read support for Wiktiomary Dump, #48

• Remove support for Sdictionary Binary and Source

Octopus MDict MDX: features and improvements

• Support MDict V3 fomrat by updating readmdict, #385 by @xiaoqiangwang

• Fix files created without UUID in header, #387 by @xiaoqiangwang

  • MdxBuilder 4.0 RC2 and before creates files without UUID header

• Decode mdict title & description if they're bytes, #393 by @tomtung

• readmdict: Skip zlib decompress exceptions, #384

• readmdict: Use __name__ as logger name, and add 2 debug logs, #384

• readmdict: improve exception msg for xxhash, #385

XDXF: fixes / imrovements, issue #376

• Support <categ>
• Support embedded tags in <iref>
• Fix ignoring <mrkd>
• Fix extra newlines
• Get rid of warning for <etm>
• Fix/improve newline and space issues
• Fix and improve tests
• Update url for format description
• Support any tag/string in <ex>, #396
• Support reading compressed files directly (.xdxf.gz, .xdxf.bz2, .xdxf.lzma)
• Allow using XSL using --write-options=xsl=True
• Update XSL
• Other improvements in XDXF to HTML transformation

AppleDict Binary: features, bug fixes, improvements, refactoring

• Fix css name on html_full=True

• Fix using self._encoding when should use utf-8

• Fix internal links, #343

  • Remove x-dictionary:d: prefix from href
  • First fix for x-dictionary:r:: use title if present
  • Add bword:// prefix to href (unless it points to http/https)
  • Read entry IDs on open and fix links with x-dictionary:r:

• Add plistlib to dependencies

• Add tests

• Replace <entry ...> with <div>

• Fix bad exception formatting

• Fixes from PR #436

• Support morphology (alternates): #434 by @soshial

• Support different AppleDict offsets, #417 by @soshial

• Extract AppleDict meta-info (langs, title, author), #418 by @soshial

• Progress Bar on open() / loading KeyText.data

• Improve memory usage of loading KeyText.data

• Replace appledict_bin.py with appledict_bin directory and more refactoring

Glossary class (glossary.py)

• Lots of refactoring in glossary.py

  • Improve the design and readability
  • Reduce complexity of methods
  • Move some code into new classes that Glossary inherits from
  • Improve error messages

• Introduce glossary_v2.py, and maintain API backward-compatibility for glossary.py (as far as documented)

  • See README.md for sample code.

Refactoring

• Fix style errors using ruff based on pyproject.toml configuration

• Remove all usages of pyglossary.plugins.formats_common

• Use str.startswith(tuple) and str.endswith(tuple)

• Reduce complexity of Glossary methods

• Rename entry filter strip to trim_whitespaces

• Some refactoring in StarDict reader

• Use f-string equal syntax added in Python 3.8

• Use str.removeprefix and str.removesuffix added in Python 3.9

• langs/writing_system.py:

  • Change iso field to list
  • Add new scripts
  • Add getAllWritingSystemsFromText
  • More refactoring

• Split up TextGlossaryReader.loadInfo method

• plugin_manager.py: make some methods private

Documentation

• Update plugins' documentation

• Glossary: add comments about entryFilters

• Update config.rst

• Update doc/entry-filters.md

• Update README.md

• Update doc/sort-key.md

• Update doc/pyicu.md

• Update plugins/testformat.py

• Add types for arguments and result of all functions/methods

• Add types for r/w options in reader/writer classes

• Fix a few incorrect type annotations

• README.md: Add document for adding data entries, #412

• README.md: Fix -> nixos command, #400 by @srghma

• Update bgl_info.md and move it from pyglossary/plugins/babylon_bgl/ to doc/babylon/

Testing

• Add test for DSL -> Tabfile conversion

• dsl_test.py: fix method names not starting with test_

• StarDict reader: better testing for handling definitions with mixed types

• StarDict writer: much better testing, coverage of stardict.py: from %62 to %83

• Refactoring and improvements in tests of Glossary, along with new tests

• Add test for dictunformat -> Tabfile

• AppleDict (source) tests: validate plist file contents

• Allow forking and branching pyglossary-test repo

  • See tests/glossary_v2_test.py

• Fix some failing tests on Windows

• Slob: test file_size_approx

• Test Tabfile -> SQL conversion

• Test StarDict error/warning for sortKeyName with and without locale

• Print useful messages for unhandled warnings

• Improve logs

• Add showDiff=False arg to compareTextFiles and convert

Packaging

• Update and refactor Dockerfile and run-with-docker.sh

  • Dockerfile: change WORKDIR to /root/home which is mapped to host's home dir
  • run-with-docker.sh: create confDir before docker build (to check the owner later)
  • run-with-docker.sh: accept version (image tag) as argument
  • Use host's (non-root) user in docker run
  • Map host user's $HOME to docker's user home
  • Re-use existing docker image with same tag

• Update setup.py