Earlier Python versions are not supported, Python3 should be at least 3.8.1. Scripal is most efficient when using UTF-8 as base encoding in Python3. Check default encoding by calling locale.getpreferredencoding() or set PYTHONUTF8 = 1 to force. Using other encodings causes some performance overhead.
Scripal use ctypes https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html
This module must be available.
The python Scripal module is scripal.py. It ist not available in pip and consists of only one file.
See how to use Scripal in python test.py
Make sure to specify the correct path to the Scripal shared library when calling scripal.baseInit(path). This must be an absolute path to the folder holding libscripal.so oder scripal.dll.
The function must be called once to initialize the library.
Every single thread must call scripal.libInit(config, encoding) to specify the entire path to the config file used (empty string for default) and the encodig of the OS environment. scripal.ENC_DEFAULT will denote the standard.
import sys
import scripal
if sys.platform == "linux":
lpath = ""
if sys.platform == "win32":
cwd = os.getcwd()
lpath = cwd + "\\..\\..\\win\\x64\\Debug"
scripal.baseInit(lpath)
scripal.libInit("", scripal.ENC_UTF8)
obj = scripal.TFScripal("source", "match find(bow 'a'); ifMatch matchEnd find(eow); loop;")
result = obj.match("Find the words apple, ape and award.")
print ("source match result: ", result , " , no. of results: " , obj.getResultSize())
for i in range(0, obj.results.size()):
print(obj.results.text[i], obj.results.positions[i])
for more information see matching with Scripal and library