You might have a look at TextIndexNG which now has thesaurus support.  It
is not a general Python solution but specific to Zope and Zope products.

TextIndexNG <http://zopyx.com/OpenSource/TextIndexNG/>
thesaurus support
<http://zopyx.com/OpenSource/TextIndexNG/HelpCenter/howto/thesaurus>

Chris

"You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me." --bumper sticker

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, William Denton wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a Python equivalent to Perl's Biblio::Thesaurus and other ISO
> 2788-format thesaurus management modules?  I had a general look around the
> web and also searched at www.python.org, but didn't find anything.  I'm a
> Perl hacker, but I'm interested in this because I'd like to get an idea of
> how easy it would be to hack thesaurus awareness into Plone.
>
> I'm using Term Tree to manage the thesaurus, and it stores it in a
> database, so really all I need to be able to do is talk to the database,
> which of course is easy.  And faster.  Still, if there's any good Python
> code for handling thesauri, I'd like to hear about it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
> --
> William Denton : Toronto, Canada : www.miskatonic.org : www.frbr.org
>