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Spell-checked QPlainTextEdit for PyQt 5.x using PyEnchant
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""QPlainTextEdit With In Line Spell Check
Source:
https://nachtimwald.com/2009/08/22/qplaintextedit-with-in-line-spell-check/
"""
__license__ = 'MIT'
__author__ = '2009, John Schember '
__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
import re
import sys
import enchant
from PyQt4.Qt import (QAction, QApplication, QMenu, QPlainTextEdit,
QSyntaxHighlighter, QTextCharFormat, QTextCursor, Qt)
from PyQt4.QtCore import pyqtSignal
class SpellTextEdit(QPlainTextEdit):
"""QPlainTextEdit subclass which does spell-checking using PyEnchant"""
def __init__(self, *args):
QPlainTextEdit.__init__(self, *args)
# Default dictionary based on the current locale.
self.sp_dict = enchant.Dict()
self.highlighter = Highlighter(self.document())
self.highlighter.setDict(self.sp_dict)
def contextMenuEvent(self, event):
"""Custom context menu handler to add a spelling suggestions submenu"""
popup_menu = self.createStandardContextMenu()
# Select the word under the cursor.
cursor = self.cursorForPosition(event.pos())
cursor.select(QTextCursor.WordUnderCursor)
self.setTextCursor(cursor)
# Check if the selected word is misspelled and offer spelling
# suggestions if it is.
if cursor.hasSelection():
text = unicode(cursor.selectedText())
if not self.sp_dict.check(text):
spell_menu = QMenu('Spelling Suggestions')
for word in self.sp_dict.suggest(text):
action = SpellAction(word, spell_menu)
action.correct.connect(self.correctWord)
spell_menu.addAction(action)
# Only add the spelling suggests to the menu if there are
# suggestions.
if len(spell_menu.actions()) != 0:
popup_menu.insertSeparator(popup_menu.actions()[0])
popup_menu.insertMenu(popup_menu.actions()[0], spell_menu)
popup_menu.exec_(event.globalPos())
def correctWord(self, word):
"""Replaces the selected text with word."""
cursor = self.textCursor()
cursor.beginEditBlock()
cursor.removeSelectedText()
cursor.insertText(word)
cursor.endEditBlock()
class Highlighter(QSyntaxHighlighter):
"""QSyntaxHighlighter subclass which consults a PyEnchant dictionary"""
WORDS = ur'(?iu)[\w\']+'
def __init__(self, *args):
QSyntaxHighlighter.__init__(self, *args)
self.sp_dict = None
def setDict(self, sp_dict):
"""Sets the spelling dictionary to be used"""
self.sp_dict = sp_dict
def highlightBlock(self, text):
"""Overridden QSyntaxHighlighter method to apply the highlight"""
if not self.sp_dict:
return
text = unicode(text)
char_format = QTextCharFormat()
char_format.setUnderlineColor(Qt.red)
char_format.setUnderlineStyle(QTextCharFormat.SpellCheckUnderline)
for word_object in re.finditer(self.WORDS, text):
# Don't spell-check purely numeric "words"
if word_object.group().isdigit():
continue
if not self.sp_dict.check(word_object.group()):
self.setFormat(word_object.start(),
word_object.end() - word_object.start(), char_format)
class SpellAction(QAction):
"""A special QAction that returns the text in a signal."""
correct = pyqtSignal(unicode)
def __init__(self, *args):
QAction.__init__(self, *args)
self.triggered.connect(lambda x: self.correct.emit(
unicode(self.text())))
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
spellEdit = SpellTextEdit()
spellEdit.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
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