Contributing to open-tamil : பங்களிக்கலாம்

You may have heard of open-tamil, the free Tamil text processing tools library for Python 2 and 3. If you want to join the project please fo

llow the  directions.

1. Create a github account from http://www.github.com, and send me your handle via email (ezhillang -AT- gmail.com)
2. Learn about git – version control system (use Google if you don’t follow anything)
3. Clone the repository from instructions at https://github.com/arcturusannamalai/open-tamil
4. You should be all setup now; cd to the repository and try to install open-tamil locally in your Python setup
5. Run the command, ‘python setup.py build’ first
6. Upon success run the command, ‘python setup.py install’
7. You may have to use sudo permissions in Linux if you are not using virtualenv

To use open-tamil, and understand the functions you may read the docs from blog post, and example code,

1. Blog post on open-tamil (most important functions) : https://ezhillang.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/open-tamil-text-processing-%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%88-%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AF%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%81/
2. Example code using open-tamil package – try example code in directory called examples under the root of repo : https://github.com/arcturusannamalai/open-tamil/tree/master/examples

Hopefully you can get started on open-tamil with these resources. If not always leave a comment, drop an email @gmail.com for ezhillang, or tweet to me @ezhillang.

Anbudan,

-Muthu