Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-15 Thread asmlinkage
Will McGugan wrote: > > Wasn't Google's first search engine actualy written in Python? I would'nt be surprised if they actually used python to do some prototyping of their algorithms but I cannot imagine the search engine actually being written in python. Search engines consist of many sub-syste

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-15 Thread Jim
I am finding this discussion illuminating. Can I ask: does it possibly make sense to use a dB? For an application of mine, I had been looking at putting the text into PostGres, and using their OpenFTS, at //http://openfts.sourceforge.net/ (there is a Python module to talk to OpenFTS, although it

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-15 Thread Thomas Guettler
Am Wed, 14 Sep 2005 07:39:35 -0700 schrieb Harlin Seritt: > Hi, > > Is anyone aware of an available open-source/free search engine app > (something similar to HTDig) written in Python that is out there? > Googling has turned up nothing. Thought maybe I'd mine some of you > guys' minds on this. H

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-14 Thread Peter Hansen
Will McGugan wrote: > Alan Meyer wrote: >> I stand ready to be corrected, but I think Python would not be a >> good language for writing search engines. > Wasn't Google's first search engine actualy written in Python? Not unless it was some kind of quickie prototype that was immediately discard

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-14 Thread Alan Meyer
"Alan Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > I stand ready to be corrected, but I think Python would not be a > good language for writing search engines. In the ones I've written > for custom projects - in C or PL/1, it has been necessary to > perform very high

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-14 Thread Kent Johnson
gene tani wrote: > Yes, there's a bunch. Google for "query parser" + python, "porter > stemming" "stopwords" "text indexer". Maybe lucene has some python > bindings, hmm? At least two Python versions of Lucene: http://pylucene.osafoundation.org/ http://divmod.org/projects/lupy Kent > > Harlin

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-14 Thread Will McGugan
Alan Meyer wrote: > I'm not aware of such a thing. > > I stand ready to be corrected, but I think Python would not be a > good language for writing search engines. In the ones I've written > for custom projects - in C or PL/1, it has been necessary to > perform very high speed operations on high

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Harlin Seritt wrote: > Is anyone aware of an available open-source/free search engine app > (something similar to HTDig) written in Python that is out there? > Googling has turned up nothing. Thought maybe I'd mine some of you > guys' minds on this. http://divmod.org/ has a couple of alternatives

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-14 Thread gene tani
Yes, there's a bunch. Google for "query parser" + python, "porter stemming" "stopwords" "text indexer". Maybe lucene has some python bindings, hmm? Harlin Seritt wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone aware of an available open-source/free search engine app > (something similar to HTDig) written in Python t

Re: Python Search Engine app

2005-09-14 Thread Alan Meyer
"Harlin Seritt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > Is anyone aware of an available open-source/free search engine app > (something similar to HTDig) written in Python that is out there? > Googling has turned up nothing. Thought maybe I'd mine some of you > guys'

Python Search Engine app

2005-09-14 Thread Harlin Seritt
Hi, Is anyone aware of an available open-source/free search engine app (something similar to HTDig) written in Python that is out there? Googling has turned up nothing. Thought maybe I'd mine some of you guys' minds on this. thanks, Harlin Seritt Internet Villa: www.seritt.org -- http://mail.p