Question

I am writing a fairly simple Django application where users can enter string queries. The application will the search through the database for this string.

Entry.objects.filter(headline__contains=query) 

This query is pretty strait forward but not really helpful to someone who isn’t 100% sure what they are looking for. So I expanded the search.

from django.utils import stopwords  results = Entry.objects.filter(headline__contains=query) if(!results):     query = strip_stopwords(query)     for(q in query.split(' ')):         results += Entry.objects.filter(headline__contains=q) 

I would like to add some additional functionality to this. Searching for miss spelled words, plurals, common homophones (sound the same spelled differently), ect. I was just wondering if any of these things were built into Djangos query language. It isn’t important enough for me to write a huge algorithm for I am really just looking for something built in.

Thanks in advance for all the answers.

Answer 1

djangos orm doesn’t have this behavior out-of-box, but there are several projects that integrate django w/ search services like:

• sphinx (django-sphinx)
• solr, a lightweight version of lucene (djangosearch)
• lucene (django-search-lucene)

I cant speak to how well options #2 and #3 work, but I’ve used django-sphinx quite a lot, and am very happy with the results.