Whoosh

Mixing any programming language with another programming language is regarded by any developer around as a "no no."

Unless your working for someone in Silicon Valley and, or benefit from a team of developers to back you up, it is widely regarded as a good practice to keep code in different languages far apart from one another.

Whoosh is a text indexing and searching tool that can be used to build search engines in pure Python code.

This means Python developers can avoid using Java's Lucene or Solr (widely regarded as best open source search solutions around) and keep their project's search toolkit all under the familiar roof of Python coding.

Features:

• Uses Python-specific syntax
• No external dependencies
• No binary packages
• No need to compile anything
• Indexing is separated from searching
• Fast turnaround times
• Comes with its own query language
• Spell-checker included
• Pluggable architecture
• Tested and benchmarked code

Requirements:

• Python 2.5 or higher