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

[Jakub Wilk]

severity 627944 grave
thanks

* Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org>, 2011-05-25, 20:34:
>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.

I played with pyhyphen a bit more, and I couldn't find any sane way to 
use it successfully. Therefore, I'm raising severity to grave (as in: 
renders package unusable).

-- 
Jakub Wilk