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Whoosh is a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching
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library implemented in pure Python.
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Some of Whoosh's features include:
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* Pythonic API.
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* Pure-Python. No compilation or binary packages needed, no
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mysterious crashes.
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* Fielded indexing and search.
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* Fast indexing and retrieval -- much faster than any other
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pure-Python solution.
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* Pluggable scoring algorithm (including BM25F), text analysis,
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storage, posting format, etc.
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* Powerful query language parsed by pyparsing.
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* Pure Python spell-checker (as far as I know, the only one).
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Whoosh takes much inspiration (and sometimes translates code) from
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other open-source search engines. The fundamental design is similar
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to (but does not entirely work like and is not compatible with)
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Lucene, but uses KinoSearch's indexing algorithm, some scoring
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algorithms from Terrier, and the English morphological variation
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generator from Minion.
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