Tests 'tag' by feeding the Kernel 'input'. If the result matches any of the strings in 'outputList', the test passes.

Return a string describing the current location in the source file.

Translate text, returns the modified text.

Process an AIML element. The first item of the elem list is the name of the element's XML tag. The second item is a dictionary co

Retrieve the current value of the predicate 'name' from the specified session. If name is not a valid predicate in the session, th

Set the value of the predicate 'name' in the specified session. If sessionID is not a valid session, it will be created. If

Return the Kernel's response to the input string.

Load and learn the contents of the specified AIML file. If filename includes wildcard characters, all matching files will be loade

Push a new string onto the whitespaceBehaviorStack. The string's value is taken from the "xml:space" attribute, if it exists

Private version of respond(), does the real work.

Create a new session with the specified ID string.

Print all learned patterns, for debugging purposes.

Returns a string, the portion of pattern that was matched by a *. The 'starType' parameter specifies which type of star to find.

Return a tuple (pat, tem) where pat is a list of nodes, starting at the root and leading to the matching pattern, and tem is the

Process a <think> AIML element. <think> elements process their contents recursively, and then discard the results and return the e

Retrieve the value of the specified bot predicate. If name is not a valid bot predicate, the empty string is returned.

Return the number of categories the Kernel has learned.

Return the number of templates currently stored.

Attempt to load a previously-saved 'brain' from the specified filename. NOTE: the current contents of the 'brain' will be discarde

Return the Kernel's version string.

Verify that an AIML end element is valid in the current context. Raises an AimlParserError if an illegal end eleme

Build re object based on the keys of the current dictionary.

Test the validity of an element starting inside a <template> element. This function raises an AimlParserError exce

Add a [pattern/that/topic] tuple and its corresponding template to the node tree.

Prepare a Kernel object for use. If a brainFile argument is provided, the Kernel attempts to load the brain at the specified filen

Dump current patterns to a string for saving.

Wrapper around _endElement which catches errors in _characters() and keeps going.

Load a substitutions file. The file must be in the Windows-style INI format (see the standard ConfigParser module docs for informa

Load patterns from a previously dumps()d patterns.

Return the template which is the closest match to pattern. The 'that' parameter contains the bot's previous response. The 'topic'

Restore a previously save()d collection of patterns.

Dump the current patterns to the file specified by filename. To restore later, use restore().

Dump the contents of the bot's brain to a file on disk.

Split the string s into a list of sentences.

Set the name of the bot, used to match <bot name="name"> tags in patterns. The name must be a single word!

Set the value of the specified bot predicate. If name is not a valid bot predicate, it will be created.

Set the text encoding to use when encoding strings read from XML. Defaults to 'UTF-8'.

Handler invoked for each regex match.

Initialize the object, and populate it with the entries in the defaults dictionary.

Delete the specified session.

Process a <bot> AIML element. Required element attributes: name: The name of the bot predicate to retrieve. <bot> e

Process a <condition> AIML element. Optional element attributes: name: The name of a predicate to test. value: Th

Process a <date> AIML element. <date> elements resolve to the current date and time. The AIML specification doesn't require any p

Process a <formal> AIML element. <formal> elements process their contents recursively, and then capitalize the first letter of eac

Process a <gender> AIML element. <gender> elements process their contents, and then swap the gender of any third-person singular p

Process a <get> AIML element. Required element attributes: name: The name of the predicate whose value should be

Process a <gossip> AIML element. <gossip> elements are used to capture and store user input in an implementation-defined manner, t

Process an <id> AIML element. <id> elements return a unique "user id" for a specific conversation. In PyAIML, the user id is the

Process an <input> AIML element. Optional attribute elements: index: The index of the element from the history list to

Process a <javascript> AIML element. <javascript> elements process their contents recursively, and then run the results through a

Process a <learn> AIML element. <learn> elements process their contents recursively, and then treat the result as an AIML file to

Process an <li> AIML element. Optional attribute elements: name: the name of a predicate to query. value: the val

Process a <lowercase> AIML element. <lowercase> elements process their contents recursively, and then convert the results to all-l

Process a <person> AIML element. <person> elements process their contents recursively, and then convert all pronouns in the result

Process a <person2> AIML element. <person2> elements process their contents recursively, and then convert all pronouns in the resu

Process a <random> AIML element. <random> elements contain zero or more <li> elements. If none, the empty string is returned. If

Process a <sentence> AIML element. <sentence> elements process their contents recursively, and then capitalize the first letter of

Process a <set> AIML element. Required element attributes: name: The name of the predicate to set. <set> elements p

Process a <size> AIML element. <size> elements return the number of AIML categories currently in the bot's brain.

Process an <sr> AIML element. <sr> elements are shortcuts for <srai><star/></srai>.

Process a <srai> AIML element. <srai> elements recursively process their contents, and then pass the results right back into the A

Process a <star> AIML element. Optional attribute elements: index: Which "*" character in the current pattern should

Process a <system> AIML element. <system> elements process their contents recursively, and then attempt to execute the results as

Process a <template> AIML element. <template> elements recursively process their contents, and return the results. <template> is

Process a raw text element. Raw text elements aren't really AIML tags. Text elements cannot contain other elements; instead, the t

Process a <that> AIML element. Optional element attributes: index: Specifies which element from the output history to

Process a <thatstar> AIML element. Optional element attributes: index: Specifies which "*" in the <that> pattern to match.

Process a <topicstar> AIML element. Optional element attributes: index: Specifies which "*" in the <topic> pattern to match.

Process an <uppercase> AIML element. <uppercase> elements process their contents recursively, and return the results with all lowe

Process a <version> AIML element. <version> elements return the version number of the AIML interpreter.

Convert a word to a regex object which matches the word.

Create and return an AIML parser object.

Dump to a str

Return the number of errors found while parsing the current document.

Return a copy of the session data dictionary for the specified session. If no sessionID is specified, return a dictionary containi

Load from str

Reset the brain to its initial state. This is essentially equivilant to: del(kern) kern = aiml.Kernel()

Set the text encoding used when loading AIML files (Latin-1, UTF-8, etc.).

Enable/disable verbose output mode.