Django-spellcheckutils aims to provide some useful utils for spellchecking text in django applications.

Currently it implements the following bits:

• a simple template filter (named spellcheck) to highlight misspelled words

Planned:

• a form-field which can validate input by checking for spelling errors
• some utils to update/manipulate the users wordlist

There is one optional Django Settings variable:

• ASPELL_HOME_DIR : You may set this to a path where the python code has read/write access. This is a workaround for some problems with mod_python. You need it, if you encounter an error like this one:

  *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x0000000000a8f790 ***
  

  This may happen, if for some reason aspell thinks it's home-dir setting points to /root and the current user cannot read/write this directory.

If you get an error about undefined symbols:

AttributeError: python: undefined symbol: new_aspell_config

or with mod_python:

AttributeError: /usr/sbin/apache2: undefined symbol: new_aspell_config

Please have a detailed look at the INSTALL document and install the aspell-python C-Extension for interfacing with aspell. The ctypes binding pyaspell seems to habe some problems on some systems.