pylmflib.pylmflib.input.mdf Namespace Reference

Functions
def	mdf_read
	Read an MDF file. More...

Function Documentation

def pylmflib.pylmflib.input.mdf.mdf_read	(		filename = None,
			mdf2lmf = mdf_lmf,
			lexicon = None,
			id = None,
			encoding = ENCODING
	)

Read an MDF file.

Parameters

filename	The name of the MDF file to read with full path, for instance 'user/input.txt'.
mdf2lmf	A Python dictionary describing the mapping between MDF markers and LMF representation. Default value is 'mdf_lmf' dictionary defined in 'pylmflib/config/mdf.py'. Please refer to it as an example.
lexicon	An existing Lexicon to fill with lexical entries to read.
id	A Python string identifying the lexicon to create.
encoding	Use 'utf-8' encoding by default. Otherwise, user has to precise the native encoding of its document.

Returns

A Lexicon instance containing all lexical entries.

Definition at line 13 of file mdf.py.