How to get highlighted searches on whoosh

Question

I used an example code from pythonhosted.org but nothing seems to happen. This is code I used:

results = mysearcher.search(myquery)
for hit in results:
    print(hit["title"])

I entered this code into python but it gives an error saying mysearcher is not defined. So I'm really not sure if I'm missing something out as I'm just trying to get the basics to get me up and running.

Assem · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-03T14:29:02.493

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You are missing to define the searcher mysearcher, copy the whole code. Here is a complete example:

>>> import whoosh
>>> from whoosh.index import create_in
>>> from whoosh.fields import *
>>> schema = Schema(title=TEXT(stored=True), path=ID(stored=True), content=TEXT)
>>> ix = create_in("indexdir", schema)
>>> writer = ix.writer()
>>> writer.add_document(title=u"First document", path=u"/a",
...                     content=u"This is the first document we've added!")
>>> writer.add_document(title=u"Second document", path=u"/b",
...                     content=u"The second one is even more interesting!")
>>> writer.commit()
>>> from whoosh.qparser import QueryParser
>>> with ix.searcher() as searcher:
...     query = QueryParser("content", ix.schema).parse("first")
...     results = searcher.search(query)
...     results[0]
...
{"title": u"First document", "path": u"/a"}

Than you can highlight like this:

for hit in results:
    print(hit["title"])
    # Assume "content" field is stored
    print(hit.highlights("content"))

edited Dec 03 '15 at 14:29

answered Dec 03 '15 at 14:23

Assem

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I tried that as well earlier but this is the error it gives: `ImportError: No module named 'whoosh'` – JayJay Simpson Dec 03 '15 at 14:27
you should do `import whoosh` – Assem Dec 03 '15 at 14:27
and you should install whoosh for sure `sudo pip install whoosh` – Assem Dec 03 '15 at 14:28
I added `import whoosh` at the beginning of the code but still it gives the same error – JayJay Simpson Dec 03 '15 at 14:28
where exactly do I write the code for the installation, is that still on python or command line ? – JayJay Simpson Dec 03 '15 at 14:28
No I am currently on Windows – JayJay Simpson Dec 03 '15 at 14:34
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/96893/discussion-between-jayjay-simpson-and-bigother). – JayJay Simpson Dec 03 '15 at 14:36

How to get highlighted searches on whoosh

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