Spellchecker using enchant

spellcheck.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

"""Spellchecks src/*.md files with enchant"""

import glob
import sys
import enchant
from enchant.tokenize import get_tokenizer, EmailFilter, URLFilter

DICT_TAG = "en_US"
EXTRA_DICT_FILENAME = "dictionary.txt"
WORD_LENGTH_THRESHOLD = 3


def check_file(filename, tokenizer, dic):
    found_misspellings = False

    with open(filename) as input_file:
        for lineno, line in enumerate(input_file.readlines()):
            line.replace("’", "'")
            for word in tokenizer(line):
                word = word[0]
                if len(word) > WORD_LENGTH_THRESHOLD and not dic.check(word):
                    print("{}:{} {}".format(filename, lineno + 1, word))
                    found_misspellings = True
    return found_misspellings


def check_files(files):
    """Spellchecks @files with enchant"""
    tokenizer = get_tokenizer(DICT_TAG, filters=[EmailFilter, URLFilter])
    dic = enchant.DictWithPWL(DICT_TAG, EXTRA_DICT_FILENAME)

    found_misspellings = False
    for filename in files:
        found_misspellings = check_file(filename,
                                        tokenizer,
                                        dic) or found_misspellings

    return found_misspellings

sys.exit(check_files(glob.glob('src/*.md')))