Easy way to break up a sentence?

[Ken]

"Michal Wallace" <sabren at manifestation.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1033572672.19636.python-list at python.org...
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Ken wrote:
>
> > Hi all, I am trying to do a simple word search engine. Is
> > there an easy way to break up a sentence into individual
> > words so that I can use it to compare without traversing
> > through every character?
>
> Hey Ken,
>
> People already answered the "break up" part. I want to ask
> about the "search engine" part. What are you trying to do?
>
> A couple weeks ago, I built a python search engine called
> Ransacker. Here's an article describing how it works:
>
> http://cornerhost.com/lists/workshop-lite/2002-September/000008.html
>
> I don't know if it's what you're looking for, but it might
> help you out.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Michal   http://www.sabren.net/   sabren at manifestation.com
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Hi Michal, I am building some kind of a music database.... and the search
engine is suppose to retireve match tracks from the database.

Cheers