Text Search Engine that works with Python

[William Park]

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).

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
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