PyCollateX

PyCollateX is a fork of CollateX-pythonport with:

• improvements for Python3 and Unicode regex
• less dependencies (at the cost of export features)

CollateX is a software to

• read multiple (>= 2) versions of a text, splitting each version into parts (tokens) to be compared,
• identify similarities of and differences between the versions (including moved/transposed segments) by aligning tokens, and
• output the alignment results in a variety of formats for further processing, for instance to support the production of a critical apparatus or the stemmatic analysis of a text's genesis.

Features

• Partially non-progressive multiple-sequence alignment
• Multiple output formats: alignment table, variant graph
• Near matching (optional)

Simple example

from pycollatex import *

collation = Collation()
collation.add_plain_witness("A", "The quick brown fox jumps over the dog.")
collation.add_plain_witness("B", "The brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.")

collation_graph = collate(collation, segmentation=False)
alignment_table = output_collation_graph(collation, collation_graph)
print(alignment_table)

outputs:

+---+-----+-------+--------------------------+------+------+
| A | The | quick | brown fox jumps over the | -    | dog. |
| B | The | -     | brown fox jumps over the | lazy | dog. |
+---+-----+-------+--------------------------+------+------+

Original CollateX Contributors

Authors

• Ronald Haentjens Dekker
• Gregor Middell

Contributors

• David J. Birnbaum (for Windows support and installation documentation)
• Tara L. Andrews (for bugfixes and patches)