Exactly! The question is whether there is a python solr library that provides a layer of abstraction over that paging logic.

-Tod

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> On Sep 1, 2016, at 04:59, Andrew Hankinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Solr itself has an internal limit to the number of results you can return on a single page (I think it is 1000) and AFAIK always returns a paged result. For speed and memory usage over large result sets it would probably be most efficient to build in paging logic.
> 
>> On Aug 31, 2016, at 10:45 PM, Tod Olson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>> On a related note, do any of the libraries allow the user to iterate over a large result set without having to be aware of repeated calls, incrementing the start parameter, and that sort of bookkeeping?
>> 
>> It seems like someone must have built an iterator to hide that when you're trying to sift through a large number of hits.
>> 
>> -Tod
>> 
>>> On Aug 31, 2016, at 4:09 PM, Rhoads, Joseph <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I've used several of these.  I like the interface of mysolr but (as
>>> mentioned) it hasn't been updated in a while.
>>> 
>>> pysolr is fairly up to date (v3.5 came out in May this year), and is used
>>> in django-haystack for the solr backend.
>>> https://github.com/django-haystack/pysolr
>>> 
>>> Haystack itself is great if you want an ORM-like interface for solr and use
>>> django.
>>> https://github.com/django-haystack/django-haystack
>>> 
>>> -Joseph
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Chris Gray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I haven't done much of that but you can submit documents via the API and
>>>> have them indexed (and processed by Tika).  Once you understand how to do
>>>> that, you might find that you can do everything you want to do.
>>>> 
>>>> An alternative would be reading the source of one of those libraries.  In
>>>> the list you referenced, the only mention of inserting documents was for
>>>> sunburnt.  I would be inclined to look there first, especially since it
>>>> mentions a pythonic interface to Solr.
>>>> 
>>>> A good, and amusing, cautionary tale about overwritten Python libraries is
>>>> at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0.
>>>> 
>>>> Chris
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2016-08-31 03:28 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 31, 2016, at 3:25 PM, Chris Gray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Okay, there are SO many Python libraries [1] for Solr, and I’d like to
>>>>>>> know which one is the most popular (not necessarily the “best”).
>>>>>> What do you want to do with it?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I didn't feel the need to even look for a Python library for my needs.
>>>>>> I use Python to submit searches to the Solr web API and consume the results
>>>>>> as JSON.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Good question. I want to add documents to a Solr index, and I want to
>>>>> query the same index. Hmmm… —Eric M.
>>