Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: Whoosh
Version: 2.7.2
Summary: Fast, pure-Python full text indexing, search, and spell checking library.
Home-page: http://bitbucket.org/mchaput/whoosh
Author: Matt Chaput
Author-email: matt@whoosh.ca
License: Two-clause BSD license
Description: About Whoosh
        ============
        
        Whoosh is a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library
        implemented in pure Python. Programmers can use it to easily add search
        functionality to their applications and websites. Every part of how Whoosh
        works can be extended or replaced to meet your needs exactly.
        
        Some of Whoosh's features include:
        
        * Pythonic API.
        * Pure-Python. No compilation or binary packages needed, no mysterious crashes.
        * Fielded indexing and search.
        * Fast indexing and retrieval -- faster than any other pure-Python, scoring,
          full-text search solution I know of.
        * Pluggable scoring algorithm (including BM25F), text analysis, storage,
          posting format, etc.
        * Powerful query language.
        * Pure Python spell-checker (as far as I know, the only one). 
        
        Whoosh might be useful in the following circumstances:
        
        * Anywhere a pure-Python solution is desirable to avoid having to build/compile
          native libraries (or force users to build/compile them).
        * As a research platform (at least for programmers that find Python easier to
          read and work with than Java ;)
        * When an easy-to-use Pythonic interface is more important to you than raw
          speed. 
        
        Whoosh was created and is maintained by Matt Chaput. It was originally created
        for use in the online help system of Side Effects Software's 3D animation
        software Houdini. Side Effects Software Inc. graciously agreed to open-source
        the code.
        
        This software is licensed under the terms of the simplified BSD (A.K.A. "two
        clause" or "FreeBSD") license. See LICENSE.txt for information.
        
        Installing Whoosh
        =================
        
        If you have ``setuptools`` or ``pip`` installed, you can use ``easy_install``
        or ``pip`` to download and install Whoosh automatically::
        
            $ easy_install Whoosh
        
            or
        
            $ pip install Whoosh
        
        Learning more
        =============
        
        * Read the online documentation at https://whoosh.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
        
        * Join the Whoosh mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/whoosh
        
        * File bug reports and view the Whoosh wiki at
          http://bitbucket.org/mchaput/whoosh/
        
        Getting the source
        ==================
        
        Download source releases from PyPI at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Whoosh/
        
        You can check out the latest version of the source code using Mercurial::
        
            hg clone http://bitbucket.org/mchaput/whoosh
        
        
Keywords: index search text spell
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Indexing
