the best search engine written with python

Question

i want to build an information support system which is an web app. and we gonna use Django as the frame,but i don't know which search engine to use ? can you give me some suggestions on the search engine which we can use in our project,it must be written with python. thanks

See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/55056/whats-the-best-django-search-app — Josiah, Jul 13 '10 at 17:18

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '10 at 17:44

I believe you'd be happy with whoosh, possibly "fronted" by Haystack which is a neat way to support any of several search engines in Django (but the other underlying engines it supports are not "pure Python"... whoosh is).

I believe both whoosh and haystack support Unicode, so, in particular, Chinese too.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 13 '10 at 17:44

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Xapian with the Python bindings is the best solution for Python.

answered Jul 13 '10 at 17:44

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 13 '10 at 23:45

If you looking for Performance , Try Sphinx Search : http://sphinxsearch.com/ , best known highest performance /highly stable search engine and it have easy to use python API. But please note it is Search engine for MySQL *You have to parse files and import them to database yourself.

the best search engine written with python

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