Xapian discuss - Apr 2008 - Python bindings

I've just started with Xapian using the Python bindings and have been using
the example texts to begin understanding how the programme works.

I've been running simpleindex.py off the command line to read a directory
(C:\test) where a  file called pl.txt exists. The command I entered was
python c:\pathtoxapian c:\test but the line does not appear to do anything
and hangs.  If I try and set the path c:\test\pl.txt directly, then I get
the exception no flint database found at path c:\test\pl.txt.

I'm ultimately wanting to get Xapian looking for a set of files in a
directory defined with a certain word at the beginning of the filename.

Could anybody please let me know what I'm doing incorrectly so that I can
really get my head into this?

Thanks, Iain

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 03:39:00PM +0100, Iain Emsley wrote:
> I've just started with Xapian using the Python bindings and have been
using
> the example texts to begin understanding how the programme works.
> 
> I've been running simpleindex.py off the command line to read a
directory
> (C:\test) where a  file called pl.txt exists. The command I entered was
> python c:\pathtoxapian c:\test but the line does not appear to do anything
> and hangs.  If I try and set the path c:\test\pl.txt directly, then I get
> the exception no flint database found at path c:\test\pl.txt.
> 
> I'm ultimately wanting to get Xapian looking for a set of files in a
> directory defined with a certain word at the beginning of the filename.
> 
> Could anybody please let me know what I'm doing incorrectly so that I
can
> really get my head into this?
simpleindex.py takes a single argument: the database directory. (Which
is why it complained about no flint database found at c:\test\pl.txt
.) The data to index must then be fed in on stdin.

You may prefer to modify simpleindex.py to take a second argument, a
file to read in instead of stdin. I think this is probably a two line
change or so.

J

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