PyLUcene SHell

If you're looking for a user-friendly way to inspect a Lucene store, PyLUcene SHell (Plush) might be exactly what you need. This interactive shell has a range of features to help you view, search, and edit your store with ease.

Here are some of the key features of Plush:

- View store information and indexes definitions
- Search using the Lucene Query Parser Syntax
- Sort your results list
- Browse by document number
- See top term occurrences for a field matching a regex
- Supports PyLucene 1.9.1 and 2.0.0
- Interactive shell with emacs-like command history and editing features
- Command-line tool for scripting
- Easy installation with no Java required
- Can load NXLucene analyzers
- Free software distributed under the GNU GPL
- Written in Python, making it easy to customize

If you want to use Plush, you'll need Python 2.4 (2.3 not tested) with readline support (--enable-readline). You'll also need PyLucene, which is easy to install using binaries.

Here's an example of how to install the latest PyLucene 2.0.0-3 (Lucene 2.0.0-453447) on Ubuntu:

- cd /tmp
- wget
- 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

You can visit the PyLucene site for other pre-built binaries. Plush is a pure Python package that you can get from the Python Cheese Shop.

To install Plush, just download the package and run either of the following commands:

- sudo make install
- python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install

That's all - you don't need any .jar files or Java to run Plush. If you're looking for an easy way to manage your Lucene store, Plush is definitely worth checking out.