l555.Lexicon

Module l555 :: Class Lexicon

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Class Lexicon

An object which represents a lexicon. The lexicon is structured as a dictionary of dictionaries. Entries in the lexicon are listed by their orthographic transcription. Each entry has several statistics as well, such as frequency, familiarity, and phonetic transcription

Method Summary
	`lookup(self, word)` returns the statistics for a given word as a dictionary
	`printDict(self, file)` print out the entire dictionary to a file
	`printHeaders(self, file)` print the headers to a file.
	`printWord(self, word, file)` print one word to a file.
	`readFile(self, fileName)` fill up the lexicon from a file
	`sorted(self, keys, reverse)` returns a list of lists sorted by particular keys.

Method Details

lookup(self, word)

returns the statistics for a given word as a dictionary

printDict(self, file=<epydoc.imports._DevNull instance at 0x2aaaaea28998>)

print out the entire dictionary to a file

printHeaders(self, file=<epydoc.imports._DevNull instance at 0x2aaaaea28998>)

print the headers to a file.

printWord(self, word, file=<epydoc.imports._DevNull instance at 0x2aaaaea28998>)

print one word to a file. The word should be given as a string

readFile(self, fileName)

fill up the lexicon from a file

sorted(self, keys=[], reverse=True)

returns a list of lists sorted by particular keys. The last item in each sublist is the primaryKey, which can be used for printing out the dictionary

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