pithos VS pyglossary

Compare pithos vs pyglossary and see what are their differences.

pyglossary

A tool for converting dictionary files aka glossaries. Mainly to help use our offline glossaries in any Open Source dictionary we like on any modern operating system / device. (by ilius)
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pithos pyglossary
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4.9 9.4
25 days ago 5 days ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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pithos

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

pyglossary

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  • how to creat flashcard fast and quickly ?
    2 projects | /r/Anki | 24 Feb 2023
    pip install -U git+https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary
    2 projects | /r/Anki | 24 Feb 2023
    You can use PyGlossary to convert between many dictionary formats, including Yomichan.
  • Favourite mods?
    3 projects | /r/kobo | 4 Feb 2023
    If you have (legal) access to it, then it is also possible to load the entire OED 2nd edition. But if you find a copy which comes in two parts then you may need to play with pyglossary and dictutil to convert to Kobo's .df format and merge them before sending to your device. Some technical competence helps here. I'll say that pyglossary wanted to spit out many, many warnings about unexpected elements, but I was able to suppress them with the -v1 verbosity level option and it doesn't seem to have affected the output (though I didn't examine it very closely beyond just a couple sanity check lookups on my device).
  • I need English-Russian dictonary
    2 projects | /r/kobo | 12 Jan 2023
    I think your best bet would be to find an English-Russian dictionary in another format and convert it yourself. The conversion program I know of is Pyglossary. It can convert from many formats.
  • Offline Japanese Dictionary for Linux?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2022
    Sorry, I'm in a hurry, maybe shouldn't have posted haha!

    See here: https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary#readme

  • Application for learning foreign language. Voracious.
    2 projects | /r/LearnJapanese | 7 Aug 2022
    Allow more languages. (shot in the dark. I know the app is for japanese, but the idea would be nice with other languages if it supported other dictionaries. Say, some format from here, maybe... https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary. )
  • Are there any Korean dictionaries for Yomichan?
    5 projects | /r/ajatt | 4 Feb 2022
    Looking at your link, there seems to be a .db dictionary called DigitalNK. Do you know what this is? Is it N-Grams? https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary/blob/master/doc/p/digitalnk.md
    5 projects | /r/ajatt | 4 Feb 2022
    Oh, I can help with getting them to JSONS maybe. I just made some from stardict dictionaries. https://github.com/ilius/pyglossary I used this tool in the main github) to make csv files via commandline and then used the tool (jsonit.sh) from this github to make the csv into JSONS. You just have to remove the , between } and ] at the end. I converted the Korean dictionaries there. I am working on some Chinese stardicts as well, have them in json but need to remove the commas.
  • running GoldenDict on a Mac
    2 projects | /r/mac | 4 Oct 2021
  • How to install third party dictionary to macOS?
    3 projects | /r/MacOS | 3 Sep 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pithos and pyglossary you can also consider the following projects:

mac-dictionary-kit - Dictionary conversion tool for Mac OS X 10.5 and above

goldendict - A feature-rich dictionary lookup program, supporting multiple dictionary formats (StarDict/Babylon/Lingvo/Dictd) and online dictionaries, featuring perfect article rendering with the complete markup, illustrations and other content retained, and allowing you to type in words without any accents or correct case.

tkintertable - A pure Python library for adding tables to a Tkinter application

ebook-reader-dict - Finally decent dictionaries based on Wiktionary for your beloved eBook reader.

bidict - The bidirectional mapping library for Python.

quicktile - Adds window-tiling hotkeys to any X11 desktop. (An analogue to WinSplit Revolution for people who don't want to use Compiz Grid)

odict - A blazingly-fast, offline-first format for lexical data 📖

tkgpio - A Python library to simulate electronic devices connected to the GPIO on a Raspberry Pi, using TkInter.

linux-gui - (Archived in preparation of fully new GUI implementation) GTK3 GUI client with systray, for ProtonVPN. Works on top of linux-cli.

radio-active - Play any radios around the globe right from the terminal :zap:

cpupower-gui - cpupower-gui is a graphical program that is used to change the scaling frequency limits of the cpu, similar to cpupower.

drawing - Simple image editor for Linux