PyLUcene SHell 0.2.0

PyLUcene SHell (Plush) is an interactive shell to inspect a Lucene store.
Main features:
- View store information.
- View indexes definition.
- Search using the Lucene Query Parser Syntax.
- Sort result list.
- Browse by document number.
- Top term occurences for a field, matching a regex.
- Support PyLucene 1.9.1 and 2.0.0.
- Interactive shell emacs like command history and editing features.
- Command line tool and thus scriptable.
- Easy installation, no java required.
- Can load NXLucene analyzers.
- Plush is free software distributed under the GNU GPL.
- Plush is written in python and can be easily customized.
Installation:
You need python 2.4 (2.3 not tested) with the readline support (--enable-readline)
Plush requires PyLucene which is easy to install using binaries.
Here is an example on how to install the latest PyLucene 2.0.0-3 (Lucene 2.0.0-453447) on ubuntu:
cd /tmp
wget http://downloads.osafoundation.org/PyLucene/linux/ubuntu/PyLucene-2.0.0-3.tar.gz
tar xzvf PyLucene-2.0.0-3.tar.gz
cd PyLucene-2.0.0-3/
sudo cp -r python/* /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
sudo cp -r gcj/* /usr/local/lib
Visit the PyLucene site for other pre-built binaries.
Plush is a pure python package that you can get from the Python Cheese Shop
tar xzvf plush-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
cd plush
Install plush either with:
sudo make install
or using the pythonic way:
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
Thats all no .jar nor java required.