Text Search Engine that works with Python

[damien morton]

"Doug Farrell" <writeson at earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<Aiyg8.32103$ZC3.2619794 at newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
> 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

Have you looked at mg.

Its written in C, but useable from the unix command line.

http://www.mds.rmit.edu.au/mg/