Advanced python string search

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I was wondering if anyone can point me to a library that can search a string using google-ish syntax. Examples:

Google advanced search syntax

Craigslist advanced search syntax

So if the query were

food -pizza

and the search subject was

Ray's Pizza, best food in town!

It would not result in a match. Etc etc.

Zach Kelling · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-22 05:36:44Z

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Whoosh is really great fast, full-text search engine written in Python, it has a nice API and nice documentation.

answered Aug 22, 2011 at 5:36

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Mike Over a year ago

Thanks, you know of any tutorials by chance?

Zach Kelling Over a year ago

The docs are pretty good and have a lot of examples. There is also this tutorial geared towards use with Django: arnebrodowski.de/blog/…. If you are familiar with Django, looking at Haystack's source would give you a good idea what you can do with it.

Michael Lorton · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-22 05:22:26Z

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Does it has to be Python? Because Lucene would be perfect otherwise.

answered Aug 22, 2011 at 5:22

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Over a year ago

Did you mean to answer "PyLucene" instead?

Mike Over a year ago

Pure python would be preferred.

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