Martin Marcher wrote: > Hello, > > is there something like a standard full text search engine? > > I'm thinking of the equivalent for python like lucene is for java or > ferret for rails. Preferrably something that isn't exactly a clone of > one of those but more that is python friendly in terms of the API it > provides. > > Things I'd like to have: > > * different languages are supported (it seems most FTSs do only english) > * I'd like to be able to provide an identifier (if I index files in > the filesystem that would be the filename, or an ID if it lives in a > database, or whatever applies) > * I'd like to pass it just some (user defined) keywords with content, > the actual content (as string, or list of strings or whatever) and to > retrieve the results by search by keyword > * something like a priority should be assignable to different fields > (like field: title(priority=10, content="My Draft"), > keywords(priority=50, list_of_keywords)) > > Unnecessary: > > * built-in parsing of different files > > The "standard" I'm referring to would be something with a large and > active user base. Like... WSGI is _the_ thing to refer to when doing > webapps it should be something like $FTS-Engine is _the_ engine to > refer to. > > any hints?
There are several python lucene implementations available, and recently here a project called NUCULAR turned up. And there is ZCatalog, the full-text-indexing technology used in Zope, but which should be usable outside of zope. But "the" search-technology doesn't exist. I personally would most probably go for the lucene-based stuff, because there you possibly get auxiliary tools written in java. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
