[pylucene-dev] Re: your mail

[Andi Vajda]

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Thapar, Ashwin wrote:

> I just had another, more general question:
> As I mentioned, I am a beginner programmer and not really familiar with
> pyLucene yet. However, I am definitely willing to take the time to learn
> how to use it for my research purposes, IF it is the correct tool to
> use. As such, I would just like to check from the outset that it is
> correct, before I invest too much time in learning how to use it.
>
> Basically, I will have a folder full of text files containing some
> product reviews. What I need to do is to use python and some searching
> tool to accept a string as input, then search for instances of this
> string in the text files in the folder, and return the names of the
> files containing the string.
>
> At a more advanced level, I would like to be able to sort the results in
> some meaningful manner.
>
> Is pyLucene the right tool for me? Do you think it would be most
> suitable for this purpose?

Yes, you can do this - and a lot more - with PyLucene.

Andi..