flexlibs is a library for accessing FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) [1] projects.
flexlibs handles the necessary initialisation of the FLEx engine, and provides a class (FLExProject) for opening a FLEx project and working with its contents.
For the GUI application that runs Python scripts/plugins on FLEx databases see FLExTools [2], which is built on flexlibs.
Python 3.8 - 3.12.
Python for .NET [3] version 3.0.3.
FieldWorks Language Explorer 9.0.17 - 9.1.24.
The Python architecture must match that of FieldWorks. I.e. Install 32-bit Python for 32-bit Fieldworks, and 64-bit Python for 64-bit Fieldworks.
Run:
pip install flexlibs
import flexlibs
flexlibs.FLExInitialize()
p = flexlibs.FLExProject()
p.OpenProject('parser-experiments')
p.GetPartsOfSpeech()
# ['Adverb', 'Noun', 'Pro-form', 'Pronoun', 'Verb', 'Copulative verb', 'Ditransitive verb', 'Intransitive verb', 'Transitive verb', 'Coordinating connective']
# The API documentation is an HTML file
os.startfile(flexlibs.APIHelpFile)
...
p.CloseProject()
flexlibs.FLExCleanup()| [1] | https://software.sil.org/fieldworks/ |
| [2] | https://github.com/cdfarrow/flextools/wiki/ |
| [3] | https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet/wiki |