[Snowball-discuss] [mailinglist] Re: python version of porter2

Richard Boulton richard at lemurconsulting.com
Tue Sep 30 17:05:58 BST 2008


Michael Dirolf wrote:
> good point - i'll add a note to the project page tonight about the  
> existence of those Python bindings (which i had never seen before). i  
> think there are still some use cases for a pure python implementation  
> (like Jython).

 From Jython, you might well be better off using the Java version of the 
stemmers directly.  Pure python implementations could still be useful 
for IronPython (and perhaps for PyPy!).  Also in environments like 
Google's Appserver, which only allow pure python.

-- 
Richard



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