The "xappy" python module is an easy-to-use interface to the Xapian search engine. Xapian provides a low level interface, dealing with terms and documents, but not really worrying about where terms
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come from, or how to build searches to match the way in which data has been indexed. In contrast, "xappy" allows you to design a field structure, specifying what kind of information is held in particular fields, and then uses this field structure to index data appropriately, and to build and perform searches. [Less]