Question: Can I use an existing tar.gz?

[06kellyjac]

Hello,

Rather than "downloading" a wordnet e.g. oewn:2024, can I provide the tar.gz directly and have it unpacked to the .wn-data dir and prepare/update the .wn-data/wn.db

The goal is to be able to use wn within an airgapped system or hermetic build

[goodmami]

Please see this section of the documentation: https://wn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/lexicons.html#adding-local-lexicons

Basically:

wn.add(local_path)

[06kellyjac]

Thanks 🚀

I've used python -c "import wn; wn.add('english-wordnet-2023.xml.gz')" to load a copy from https://en-word.net/static/english-wordnet-2023.xml.gz matching the options in https://github.com/goodmami/wn/blob/main/wn/index.toml#L20 for oewn:2023

I had some issues because the other code I was using was (sometimes) overriding values in wn.config but managed to fix it.

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This is a little oneliner I was using to check it was loaded which others may benefit from
python -c "import wn; [print(f'{lex.id}:{lex.version}\t{lex.label}\t{lex.language}') for lex in wn.lexicons()]"
But remember this will only be looking at the default locations, if the code you're using changes the config you'll need to inspect there instead.

[goodmami]

Thanks for sharing the one-liner, but note that there is already a command for that:

$ python -m wn lexicons --help
usage: python3 -m wn lexicons [-h] [-l LANG] [--lexicon LEXICON]

Display a list of installed lexicons.

options:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -l, --lang LANG    BCP 47 language code
  --lexicon LEXICON  lexicon specifiers
$ python -m wn lexicons --lexicon "omw-en:1.4"  # check a specific lexicon
omw-en  1.4     [en]    OMW English Wordnet based on WordNet 3.0
$ python -m wn lexicons  # list all installed lexicons
omw-en  1.4     [en]    OMW English Wordnet based on WordNet 3.0
omw-sl  1.4     [sl]    sloWNet
omw-nn  1.4     [nn]    Norwegian Wordnet (Nynorsk)
omw-da  1.4     [da]    DanNet
[...]

With any of the wn subcommands, you can change the data directory if you put the -d/--dir option before the subcommand name:

$ python -m wn --dir=~/.wn_data/ lexicons --lexicon "omw-en:1.4"
omw-en  1.4     [en]    OMW English Wordnet based on WordNet 3.0