Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-15 Thread asmlinkage
Will McGugan wrote: > > Wasn't Google's first search engine actualy written in Python? I would'nt be surprised if they actually used python to do some prototyping of their algorithms but I cannot imagine the search engine actually being written in python. Search engines consist of many sub-syste

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-15 Thread Jim
I am finding this discussion illuminating. Can I ask: does it possibly make sense to use a dB? For an application of mine, I had been looking at putting the text into PostGres, and using their OpenFTS, at //http://openfts.sourceforge.net/ (there is a Python module to talk to OpenFTS, although it

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-15 Thread Thomas Guettler
Am Wed, 14 Sep 2005 07:39:35 -0700 schrieb Harlin Seritt: > Hi, > > Is anyone aware of an available open-source/free search engine app > (something similar to HTDig) written in Python that is out there? > Googling has turned up nothing. Thought maybe I'd mine some of you > guys' minds on this. H

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-14 Thread Peter Hansen
Will McGugan wrote: > Alan Meyer wrote: >> I stand ready to be corrected, but I think Python would not be a >> good language for writing search engines. > Wasn't Google's first search engine actualy written in Python? Not unless it was some kind of quickie prototype that was immediately discard

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-14 Thread Alan Meyer
"Alan Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > I stand ready to be corrected, but I think Python would not be a > good language for writing search engines. In the ones I've written > for custom projects - in C or PL/1, it has been necessary to > perform very high

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-14 Thread Kent Johnson
gene tani wrote: > Yes, there's a bunch. Google for "query parser" + python, "porter > stemming" "stopwords" "text indexer". Maybe lucene has some python > bindings, hmm? At least two Python versions of Lucene: http://pylucene.osafoundation.org/ http://divmod.org/projects/lupy Kent > > Harlin

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-14 Thread Will McGugan
Alan Meyer wrote: > I'm not aware of such a thing. > > I stand ready to be corrected, but I think Python would not be a > good language for writing search engines. In the ones I've written > for custom projects - in C or PL/1, it has been necessary to > perform very high speed operations on high

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Harlin Seritt wrote: > Is anyone aware of an available open-source/free search engine app > (something similar to HTDig) written in Python that is out there? > Googling has turned up nothing. Thought maybe I'd mine some of you > guys' minds on this. http://divmod.org/ has a couple of alternatives

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-14 Thread gene tani
Yes, there's a bunch. Google for "query parser" + python, "porter stemming" "stopwords" "text indexer". Maybe lucene has some python bindings, hmm? Harlin Seritt wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone aware of an available open-source/free search engine app > (something similar to HTDig) written in Python t

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-14 Thread Alan Meyer
"Harlin Seritt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > Is anyone aware of an available open-source/free search engine app > (something similar to HTDig) written in Python that is out there? > Googling has turned up nothing. Thought maybe I'd mine some of you > guys'