web facing static text db

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Fetchinson . via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
> * store text documents (about 100000 pages)
> * the data set is static (i.e. only lookups are performed, no delete,
> no edit, no addition)
> * only one operation required: lookup of pages by matching words in them
> * very simple web frontend for querying the words to be matched
> * no authentication or authorization, frontend completely public
> * deployment at webfaction
> * deadline: yesterday :)
>
> Which web framework and db engine would you recommend?

PostgreSQL has decent facilities for text search. You can access that
from Python using the psycopg2 module, and use something like Flask to
help you put together your front end.

ChrisA