enchant.Dict() in Python

Last Updated : 03 Jun, 2020

Enchant is a module in python which is used to check the spelling of a word, gives suggestions to correct words. Also, gives antonym and synonym of words. It checks whether a word exists in dictionary or not.

enchant.Dict()

enchant.Dict() is an inbuilt method of enchant module. It is used to create a Dict object, which is the most important object in the enchantt module. The Dict object represents the dictionary of a particular language.

Syntax : enchant.Dict(tag)
Parameter :
tag : the code of the language dictionary(optional)
Returns : a Dict object

Example 1 :

# import the enchant module
import enchant
  
# dictionary of en_US
d = enchant.Dict("en_US")
  
# the dictionary tag
tag = d.tag
print("The dictionary tag is " + tag)

The dictionary tag is en_US

Example 2 : When the enchant.Dict() method is executed without passing any parameter in it, it by default takes the the code of the language of the local machine.

# import the enchant module
import enchant
  
# instantiating the dictionary 
# without passing any parameter
d = enchant.Dict()
  
# finding the dictionary tag
tag = d.tag
print("The dictionary tag is " + tag)

The dictionary tag is en_IN

Example 3 : The enchant.Dict() method may fail if the appropriate dictionary is not available. In that case the following message is printed:

enchant.Dict()

Output :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
enchant.Dict()
File “C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\enchant\__init__.py”, line 541, in __init__
_EnchantObject.__init__(self)
File “C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\enchant\__init__.py”, line 144, in __init__
self._init_this()
File “C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\enchant\__init__.py”, line 548, in _init_this
this = self._broker._request_dict_data(self.tag)
File “C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\enchant\__init__.py”, line 286, in _request_dict_data
self._raise_error(e_str % (tag, ), DictNotFoundError)
File “C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\enchant\__init__.py”, line 233, in _raise_error
raise eclass(default)
enchant.errors.DictNotFoundError: Dictionary for language ‘English_India’ could not be found

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