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Relevant because "building a full-text search engine" is solved using SQLite just as much as it can be solved by writing Python on top of lxml and py-stemmer.
by ignoramous 6y ago
Relevant because "building a full-text search engine" is solved using SQLite just as much as it can be solved by writing Python on top of lxml and py-stemmer.
SQLite is no heavyweight dependency àla Apache Lucene. It also helps that it is bundled in billions of Android and iOS devices.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoI'm sure there's some pypi package that has a full search system you can download. For that matter, there's the python sqlite package. It's irrelevant that it's ten lines of library calling code when you're comparing it to a toy implementation.
- arafalov 6y agoApache Lucene can be as small as 5Mb, if you don't load what you don't need.