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Some of Whoosh's features include:

* Pythonic API.
* Pure-Python. No compilation or binary packages needed, no mysterious crashes.
* Pure-Python. No compilation or binary packages are needed, no mysterious crashes.
* Fielded indexing and search.
* Fast indexing and retrieval -- faster than any other pure-Python, scoring,
full-text search solution I know of.
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* Anywhere a pure-Python solution is desirable to avoid having to build/compile
native libraries (or force users to build/compile them).
* As a research platform (at least for programmers that find Python easier to
read and work with than Java ;)
* As a research platform (at least for programmers who find Python easier to
read and work with Java ;)
* When an easy-to-use Pythonic interface is more important to you than raw
speed.

Whoosh was created by Matt Chaput and is maintained currently by the Sygil-Dev Organization. It was originally created for use in the online help system of Side Effects Software's 3D animation software Houdini. Side Effects Software Inc. graciously agreed to open-source the code.
Whoosh was created by Matt Chaput and is maintained currently by the Sygil-Dev Organization. It was created for use in the online help system of Side Effects Software's 3D animation software Houdini. Side Effects Software Inc. graciously agreed to open-source the code.

This software is licensed under the terms of the simplified BSD (A.K.A. "two
clause" or "FreeBSD") license. See LICENSE.txt for information.
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If you have ``setuptools`` or ``pip`` installed, you can use ``easy_install``
or ``pip`` to download and install Whoosh automatically::

# install the old version from Pypi
$ easy_install Whoosh

or

# install the old version from PyPI
$ pip install Whoosh


# Install the development version from Github.
# Install the development version from GitHub.
$ pip install git+https://github.com/Sygil-Dev/whoosh-reloaded.git

Getting the source.
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===========

* [Sygil-Dev Organization](https://github.com/Sygil-Dev)
* [ZeroCool940711](https://github.com/ZeroCool940711)
* [ZeroCool940711](https://github.com/ZeroCool940711)

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