Django full-text indexing with Djapian

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	Django full-text indexing with Djapian

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2-19-2008 5:06 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ac3aabc5-ec69-426c-a033-7da806a7e45f/64A651D6-DE4E-4787-A992-5294BF8B2649/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://net-x.org/weblog/2008/feb/18/django-full-text-indexing-djapian/" href="http://net-x.org/weblog/2008/feb/18/django-full-text-indexing-djapian/" style="font-size: 11px;">net-x.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://net-x.org/weblog/2008/feb/18/django-full-text-indexing-djapian/"><H2>Django full-text indexing with Djapian</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://net-x.org/weblog/2008/feb/18/django-full-text-indexing-djapian/"><P>I recently stumbled across the <A title="djapian" href="http://code.google.com/p/djapian/">djapian</A> project over at google code.  I've been looking for a full-text indexer for Django for quite a while but hadn't found anything that I felt did what I wanted.  The dead search-branch in Django's repository was so tempting but incomplete.  I noticed the <A title="django-sphinx" href="http://code.google.com/p/django-sphinx/">django-sphinx</A> project during my initial searching months ago but what I felt it was lacking (which was a deal breaker for me) is the ability to search across multiple models.  Djapian, however, has the ability to do just this.  What I ultimatley wanted to be able to do was something like this:
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://net-x.org/weblog/2008/feb/18/django-full-text-indexing-djapian/"><PRE><CODE>&gt;&gt;&gt; from search import indexer
&gt;&gt;&gt; search = indexer.search('some search term')
&gt;&gt;&gt; search.count()
2
&gt;&gt;&gt; result = search[0]
&gt;&gt;&gt; result.score
100
&gt;&gt;&gt; for result in search:
...     result.get_object()
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