Fast full-text searching in Python (job for Whoosh?)

[Thomas Passin]

On 3/6/2023 7:28 AM, Dino wrote:
> On 3/5/2023 9:05 PM, Thomas Passin wrote:
>>
>> I would probably ingest the data at startup into a dictionary - or 
>> perhaps several depending on your access patterns - and then you will 
>> only need to to a fast lookup in one or more dictionaries.
>>
>> If your access pattern would be easier with SQL queries, load the data 
>> into an SQLite database on startup.
> 
> Thank you. SQLite would be overkill here, plus all the machinery that I 
> would need to set up to make sure that the DB is rebuilt/updated regularly.
> Do you happen to know something about Whoosh? have you ever used it?

I know nothing about it, sorry.  But anything beyond python dictionaries 
and possibly some lists strikes me as overkill for what you have described.

>> IOW, do the bulk of the work once at startup.
> 
> Sound advice
> 
> Thank you