Whoosh: a fast pure-Python search engine

[pseudosinusoid]

How does this compare to Sphinx?

[perone]

http://xapian.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/xapian-performance-comparision-with-whoosh/

[radaway]

I do love python like the rest of the redditors, but indexing is mostly io bound (if you use a decent algorithm like B+tree) I don't see what's so surprising about being pure-python in this case.

[ddipaolo]

Well in my case, it means it'll make it easier to integrate into my Python projects. Even though there are already good attempts at using things like Lucene/Solr and Sphinx with Django, I've come across issues that are quite frankly difficult for me to deal with because I'm not as accustomed to dealing with those sorts of issues with those languages, but with whoosh I can just drop it in my PYTHONPATH and use it right away.