How to use: Added by @n-y-kim

‼️DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR CLONE THIS REPO! THIS IS READ ONLY FOR PYTHON USERS‼️

1. Download the most recent release version from liblouis repo.(zip file)
2. Check your environment. import louis is not supportable at arm64 architecture(v 3.21.0). Only x86_64 would be able to get the correct path.
3. Unzip your installed file.
4. RUN ./configure
5. RUN make
6. RUN sudo make install
7. Move to python folder and RUN python setup.py install
8. You would be able to import louis and test.

EXAMPLE:

import louis

print(louis.translateString(["braille-patterns.cti", "en-us-g2.ctb"], "Hello, World!"))
#⠠⠓⠑⠇⠇⠕⠂⠀⠠⠸⠺⠖

print(louis.backTranslateString(["braille-patterns.cti", "en-us-g2.ctb"], "⠓⠑⠇⠇⠕"))
#hello

If you have this problem(issue #990)(cython OSError), follow these steps:

(I got this error when I tried deploying web server, nginx & gunicorn on Ubuntu)

1. Go to ~/python/louis/__init__.py
2. Add function CDLL inside from ctypes import ~
3. Fix line 61:

import os
path_f = os.path.abspath( os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "liblouis.so.20"))
liblouis = CDLL(path_f)

4. RUN python setup.py install again
5. Go to /usr/local/lib(your library file) and check if liblouis.so.20 and liblouis.a exist
6. Copy those files to your python louis package folder. For example, my conda environments are: /home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/louis/. So I used cp commands to copy.



cp -a liblouis* /home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_latest_p37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/louis/

7. Now it should work! :)