PyWordNet Change History

Version 1.4

New Features

• Incorporated Klaus Reis 's implementation of Lexname (not yet documented).

API Changes

• Added Word.getSenses(), which will replace the deprecated Word.sense(). (It wasn't clear under the old naming scheme which were data fields and which were methods.) Other new methods: Word.getAdjectivePositions, Synset.getSenses, Synset.getPointers, Synset.getPointerTargets, Sense.getPointers, Sense.getPointerTargets, Sense.getSenses, Sense.getWord, Pointer.getSource, Pointer.getTarget.
• Remove Word.string, Sense.string, and Synset.string. (Use object.form instead.)
• Added Word.getPointers and Word.getPointerTargets, that raise an error and direct the user to the corresponding methods on sense and synset.

Bug fixes

• morphy('hardrock', 'adv') no longer goes into an infinite loop. (This was caused by a bug in binarySearchFile where the search position was at the end of the file.)

Other Changes

• Updated doctest examples to wn1.7 database. (wordnet._test() is therefore no longer useful with a wn1.6 database, since their are more synsets and they're in a different order, and so on.)
• Updated comments. help(wordnet) is now useful.

Version 1.3 (8/5/2001)

• The windows version looks for unix-style names too, so that it will work with wn1.7
• Moved project page to http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/pywordnet
• Changed to the Artistic License .
• Reformat to Python source conventions, and wrap long comments
• Move release notes to a separate file
• Package with distutils

Version 1.2 (4/15/1999)

• public release
• moved nonessential utility functions to wntools
• renamed private functions to begin with _
• closure (now in wntools) unions, rather than concatenating
• fixed searchBinaryFile to find the first line

Version 1.1.2 (4/24/1999)

• fixed for Windows (added workaround for Python file.seek() bug)
• first public release of wntools.py; includes morphy and getindex

Version 1.1.1 (4/21/1999)

• fixed len(Dictionary); fixed doctest comments
• moved string, sequence, tree utility functions to wntools.py (not yet released)

Version 1.1 (4/14/1999)

• more doctest comments
• added 'form' attribute as a synonym for 'string'
• extend closure and its derivatives to work on Words

Version 1.1d3 (3/18/1999)

• added test code and doctest comments

Version 1.1d2 (3/8/1999)

• added verb frames

Version 1.1d1 (2/27/1999)

• simplified copyright notice (it's still free)
• added cache (buildIndexCaches)
• make Dictionary print as the variable that's bound to it
• added method Dictionary.keys(), that returns strings for that part of speech
• added method Dictionary.has_key()
• more efficient (don't reopen same pathname)
• reorganized code: move Cache later, broke _IndexFile out of Dictionary

Version 1.0 (11/13/1998)

• initial public release