<story><title>Whoosh – Fast, full-text indexing and searching library in Python</title><url>https://bitbucket.org/mchaput/whoosh/wiki/Home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattdeboard</author><text>Solr is just so easy to get up and running, so powerful with so many options for scaling, I don&amp;#x27;t see the benefit of &amp;quot;pure Python&amp;quot; here. (To be fair, despite living and breathing Python most days, I&amp;#x27;ve never thought &amp;quot;pure Python&amp;quot; is a selling point.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randlet</author><text>Pure Python is definitely a selling point for those of us who regularly deploy to multiple platforms.  Knowing you can &amp;#x27;pip install pure-python-lib&amp;#x27; on any platform and have it work every single time without regards to what c compilers and c libraries you have available is a major boon.</text></comment>
<story><title>Whoosh – Fast, full-text indexing and searching library in Python</title><url>https://bitbucket.org/mchaput/whoosh/wiki/Home</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattdeboard</author><text>Solr is just so easy to get up and running, so powerful with so many options for scaling, I don&amp;#x27;t see the benefit of &amp;quot;pure Python&amp;quot; here. (To be fair, despite living and breathing Python most days, I&amp;#x27;ve never thought &amp;quot;pure Python&amp;quot; is a selling point.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nknighthb</author><text>Having had nothing but extremely negative experiences with production JVM deployments, anything being not-JVM-based is a huge selling point for me. Furthermore, &amp;quot;pure python&amp;quot; itself means that I can run it in any Python implementation I want, including pypy, without worrying about any C modules.</text></comment>