HfstPythonVersion4

HFST Python API version 4.0

This page contains plans for a future release of HFST python API.

HfstMutableTransducer

Currently, we have HfstBasicTransducer, but a more descriptive name would be HfstMutableTransducer.

Exceptions

Maybe not a separate class for each exception but subclass(es) of RuntimeError?

Special characters

A more coherent way of handling and special characters (epsilon, unknown, identity, flag diacritics, space, colon) when converting between text and binary formats. Could long names, e.g. (@_UNKNOWN_SYMBOL_@) be always short (?) by default?

Also, default for handling flag diacritics varies among the python API functions as well as between python API and command line tools.

Version numbering scheme

• Three or four digits?
• Semantic versioning?
• Version numbers separate from HFST command line tools?