Text Search Engine that works with Python

[Ron Johnson]

On 04 Mar 2002, 00:27:23, William Park wrote:
> Doug Farrell <writeson at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm wondering if anyone knows of a text search engine that works with
> > Python? What I'm looking for specifically is something that will
> > compress the text and still allow searches and retrievals that can be
> > exact matches or proximity based. The text I want to compress and
> > search is huge (70 megs) and should compress down to half, not
> > including any index files that might be required by the search engine.
> > Anyone know of anything like this or any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks, Doug Farrell
> 
> Perhaps, you can illustrate your problem with some concrete examples.
> Otherwise, you'll be getting "use Linux" or "use gzip/bzip2" answers
> which wouldn't be too useful for you (judging by the fact that you had
> to ask in the first place).
> 

Maybe he's talking about "zgrep".

http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/gzip/zgrep.1.html

However, the effort involved in decompressing the file might out-
weigh the benefits from saving 35MB disk space.

Unless you have an _old_ disk, it may be best to leave the text
uncompressed.

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