Any module or library for full-text indexing?

[Frank Niessink]

Russell Turpin <noone at do.not.use> wrote:
> I'm looking for a Python module that does full text 
> indexing, ie, that extracts a set of significant words 
> from a text document, and searches for a candidate word 
> in a list of words so extracted. The module should 
> solve the following problems:

[snip]

> If there is no C package, I'll consider anything that 
> can run on a Linux box.

I don't know of any python module or package, but I have successfully
used glimpse for this purpose (http://webglimpse.org/). I think it
will fulfill most of your requirements.
 
Cheers, Frank
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