ALIGNER
-------------------------------

This distribution contains Python code for
a minimumu edit distance module.


INSTALL
---------------------
To install untar the tar ball (directions below) and connect to the directory 
created (named aligner.0-1, or whatever the current version
is).  In linux:

% python setup.py install

To install in Windows:


> C:\Python24\python.exe setup.py install

Your version of Python may of course be installed in a different directory
and the path to your Python.exe would then differ.

RUN
----

Simple aligner

>>> from aligner.align import *

align.py  contains examples and instructions at the bottom
and the documentation provides instructions on using them., 

DOCUMENTATION
------------------

The source code for the distribution is installed
in the site-packages directory of your python distribution.

For example in Linux, this is often

/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/aligner

The documentation is in

/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/aligner/doc

Afterf installation, point your browser at:

/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/aligner/doc/index.html

UNTARRING the TAR Ball  (*.tar.gz file)
------------------------------------------

1.  Linux.  Conect to the directory containing the tar file
on your home machine. Then do.

% tar xzvf aligner-0.1.tar.gz

This will create a subdirectory of the download directory called
finite-state-transducer-0.1.  Connect to that directory
(it should contain a file called setup.py) and follow the directions
above for installation.

2.  Windows.  You should use Python's tar package.

USING Python's Tar package (for Windows folks) 
  illustrated with Python 2.3.4 [works with that version or later)

You should connect to whatever directory you have placed
the tar.gz file in on your home machine. THEN
start up python there.

C:\Downloads > C:\Python24\python.exe

---------------------------------------------

Python 2.3.4 (#1, Oct 26 2004, 16:42:40) 
[GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import tarfile
>>> FileObj = tarfile.open('finite-state-transducer-0.1.tar.gz','rb:gz')
>>> FileObj
<tarfile.TarFile object at 0xf6f831cc>
>>> for tinfo in FileObj:
...   FileObj.extract(tinfo)
... 
>>> 

This will create a subdirectory of the download directory called
finite-state-transducer-0.1.  Connect to that directory
(it should contain a file called setup.py) and follow the directions
above for installation.