Is there a open-search solution for python?

Question

lucene-like would be preferred.

thanks

Answer 1

How about python bindings for Lucene?

Answer 2

Why you need lucene-like when you can use lucene (PyLucene) :)

http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/

It is great and builds against the latest build of lucene

quote from site:

PyLucene is a Python extension for accessing Java Lucene. Its goal is to allow you to use Lucene's text indexing and searching capabilities from Python. It is API compatible with the latest version of Java Lucene, version 2.9.0 as of October 13th, 2009.

PyLucene is not a Lucene port but a Python wrapper around Java Lucene. PyLucene embeds a Java VM with Lucene into a Python process. The PyLucene Python extension, a Python module called lucene, is machine-generated by JCC.

PyLucene is built with JCC, a C++ code generator that makes it possible to call into Java classes from Python via Java's Native Invocation Interface (JNI). Sources for JCC are included with the PyLucene sources.

Answer 3

See SolPython and solrpy

What is solrpy?

solrpy is a python client for solr, an enterprise search server built on top of lucene. solrpy allows you to add documents to a solr instance, and then to perform queries and gather search results from solr using your favorite programming language--python.

Answer 4

You can also check ElasticSearch, it has native JSON interface so integrating with it in python should be simpler. Seems like Simon Willison things it got potential...

Answer 5

How about Sphinx? http://www.sphinxsearch.com/

It has Python bindings included. I don't have comparision with other solutions like Lucene, but I'm using Sphinx for CRM and it works very well, indexing emails, notes etc.

Answer 6

Xapian is an excellent Lucene-alternative, with fairly good Python-bindings, which is also easier to install than pylucene.