Recently Learned

• Threads in Python - Used it to send 3 queries in parallel to metrokc for my OptiBus project
• Using re.sub to remove all tags and thereby convert html to txt
• Contructing POST requests using urllib. (Note2Self: I should use urllib2 and pose as IE)
• More experience with writing bookmarklets for my webapps
• vim: few cool tricks #
• 'map' can be used as a faster 'for' #

Lucene

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucene

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=137802

Lucene is a fast text search engine. Nutch is a derivative project that also has web crawling etc. There is pyLucene too - Python interface for Java based Lucene.