Automated spell-checking in Django projects
summary
Automated checks use sphinxcontrib-spelling for Sphinx docs and a new tool potypo for .po files, combining python-gettext parsing with pyenchant to run multiple spell engines. Configuration lives in setup.cfg, supports per-language wordlists, phrase and edge-case skipping (punctuated tokens, alphanumeric IDs), and CI gates by checking _build/spelling output. Prototype is already running on one real project and catches many typos that manual review misses.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and motivation
- 4:19Spell checking documentation
- 8:32Spell checking user interfaces
- 10:23Introducing PO Typos
- 17:45Setting up PO Typos
- 23:04Handling edge cases
- 26:58Project status and Q&A
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