[Python-modules-team] Bug#627944: python-pyhyphen: doesn't work out-of-the-box with hyphen-* packages

[Jakub Wilk]

Package: python-pyhyphen
Version: 1.0~beta1-2
Severity: important

I have hyphen-en-us installed on my system, so expected that calling 
hyphen.hyphenator() with default arguments will open the US English 
dictionary. But instead it raises rather unhelpful exception:

$ python -c 'from hyphen import hyphenator; hyphenator()'
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/hyphen/__init__.py", line 132, in __init__
     compound_lmin, compound_rmin)
IOError: Cannot load hyphen dictionary.

Looking at strace output, pyhyphen is trying to open a file in a 
nonsense directory:

open("$path/en_US", O_RDONLY)           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-pyhyphen depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.13-4     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  python                        2.6.6-14   interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python2.6                     2.6.6-10   An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python2.7                     2.7.1-9    An interactive high-level object-o

-- 
Jakub Wilk