Open Source Python Text Processing Software

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A Python Scripting plugin for Notepad++. Complete easy script access to all of the editor's features (including absolutely everything in Scintilla). Configurable menus and toolbar options, assign shortcuts to scripts.

Utilities for general- and special-purpose documentation. Includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.

Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. It can retrieve files for comparison from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories.

PDF-Shuffler is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a frontend for python-pyPdf.

SE|PY is an ActionScript editor written in python, wxPython and using scintilla for text highlight, code collapsing. some features: snippets panel, functions panel and much more. Contain also Flush

Bundles Portable Python (with PyGTK) and Meld together in an easy to use installer. This allows you to not have to worry about setting up Python or PyGTK and you can keep Meld's Python separate from other Python installations on your machine. ** NOTE ** Meld 3.11 and later now have official installers, hence this project is no longer supported. You can download the new installer here: https://download.gnome.org/binaries/win32/meld/. You should uninstall the old 1.8 version before upgrading.

Pyana is a extension module that allows Python programs to interface with the Apache Software Foundation's Xalan XSLT transformation engine.

Tomoe is a handwriting character recognition engine.

SilverCity is a lexing package, based on Scintilla, that can provide lexical analysis for over 20 programming and markup langauges. Scripting language bindings currently exist for Python.

Project Homepage is moved to http://cjkpython.i18n.org/

DrPython is a highly customizable cross-platform ide to aid programming in Python. It was developed with teaching in mind, and has a clean, simple interface. It is written in Python, using wxPython as the gui.

PyRtfLib is a python library that provides a parser and few translators like rtf to html and to simple text.

The EpiDoc Collaborative is developing specifications and tools for standards-based, digital publication and interchange of scholarly and educational editions of documentary and literary texts like inscriptions and papyri. The link below will take you to the EpiDoc home page on this site.

Mamba is a extensible xml templates preprocessor wrote in Python. Using it, you can rapidly develop powerful applications ready to integrate with the internet. It can be used to work as a generic CGI program or for generate content.

TeXML is an XML vocabulary for TeX. The processor transforms the TeXML markup into the TeX markup, escaping special and out-of-encoding characters. The intended audience is developers who automatically generate [La]TeX or ConTeXt files.

Buzz is a fast graphical editor for XML files with special support for OPML. Using the OPML convergence tools it will edit about any outline and many forms of indented text, including Python. In fact, Buzz was written with Buzz! It is written in P

fasttran is a TM-based tool for computer-aided human translations, designed for maximum simplicity of use.

DocLite is a simple documentation authoring system, it produces multi-page HTML output (like this document) in a style similar to that found in the Linux HOTWTOs or other DocBook created documents.

PyRTF is a pure python module for the efficient creation of RTF documents.

STF is a system of automatically generating documentation under control of a program or a script. It is frequently used to automatically generate test reports. STF is also used to clean up the output of a process and turn it into a nice looking report.

A multiplatform visual implementation of the Unix utility grep

Gyrfalcon is a note / thought / task management system. Take your notes and other bits of information and: put the notes in hierarchical trees, tag, search, hyperlink, etc. Gyrfalcon is also designed with a clean interface that avoids modal interactions.

pyfiglet is a full port of the FIGlet specification (http://www.figlet.org/) into pure python. It takes ASCII text and renders it in ASCII art fonts. It can be used on the commandline or as an Object Oriented driver library in your own programs.

The Contraction Converter is meant for people who write papers a lot and get deducted for having contractions. Run your file through this program and can't, etc. will be changed to the proper equivalent (ex. can not).