How to get the WordNet synset given an offset ID?

Question

I have a WordNet synset offset (for example id=\"n#05576222\"). Given this offset, how can I get the synset using Python?

Answer 1

You can use of2ss(), For example:

from nltk.corpus import wordnet as wn
syn = wn.of2ss('01580050a')

will return Synset('necessary.a.01')