[Catalog-sig] search queries in PyPI

[Tarek Ziade]

2008/5/15 Richard Jones <richardjones at optushome.com.au>:

> On Thu, 15 May 2008, Tarek Ziade wrote:
> > I think it wouldn't cost too much here to change the webui interface, to
> > use store.py features.
>
> The current search implementation is a trade-off between the complexity you
> would like to have and useful results for arbitrary, inelegant term lists.


ok, yes my use case is being able to look for several words with AND and/or
OR,
if searchable_text is a field with all text the package has:

search('nose AND plugin')

--- which in my mind would result in something like:

select distinct package_name
from package
where searchable_text like '%nose%' AND name like '%plugin%'

But i guess it can be rather complex, and Noah's trick fit my needs :D



>
>
> Your pseudo-code omits an important feature - the scoring of the result
> based
> on the type of match.
>

Ok.

semi-related: looking at the code, I think query_packages can be called just
once
per term, then the score calculated for each column on the results. That
would
lower the number of queries (1/3).


> Perhaps the scoring could be altered such that hits on more than one term
> in
> the same field result in a higher score?


if it is doable, that would be nice,

Maybe we could have an advanced search screen that would take care of asking
the user which field the term refers too (like roundup) ?

Tarek


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