Hypy 0.8.1 - Get your search on here.

Hypy is a fulltext search interface for Python applications. Use it to index and search your documents from Python code. Hypy is based on the estraiernative bindings by Yusuke Yoshida.

• Fast, scalable
• Perfect recall ratio by N-gram method
• High precision by hybrid mechanism of N-gram and morphological analyzer
• Phrase search, regular expressions, attribute search (including numeric and date comparisons), and similarity search
• Simple and powerful API

Homepage, downloads, everything, etc.: http://goonmill.org/hypy/

This is of course on pypi and can be installed with easy_install or pip. You will need Hyper Estraier installed to use it.

Release Version 0.8.1 (2008.12.15)
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* Initial Public Opensourcing.

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Sometimes good User Experience means ignoring sanity

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I think this is a practical solution to a real, if insane, problem.  Nice touch on the button, too.