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copied!<p>I'm not sure 'What' functionality you are talking about. If you mean 'searching keywords from a dictionnary that is recorded in your database', then <code>python dictionnary</code> is not a possible solution, as you would have to deserialize your whole database in order to make a search.</p> <p>You should rather look towards the django 'search' applications. A lot of people advise to use <code>haystack</code> :</p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55056/whats-the-best-django-search-app">What's the best Django search app?</a></p> <p>and use this search engine to look for some keyword in your database.</p> <p>If you don't want to support sophisticated searches, then you could also query for an exact keyword in your database </p> <pre><code>DictEntry.objects.get(keyword=`something`).definition </code></pre> <p>I guess it all depends on the level of sophistication you want to achieve, but there can be extremely simple solutions.</p> <p>EDIT :</p> <p>If the dictionnaries come from files, then it's hard to say, you have plenty of solutions.</p> <p>If the file is small, you could indeed deserialize it to a dictionnary when starting the server, and then always search in the same instance (so you wouldn't have to deserialize again for each request).</p> <p>If the files are really big, you could consider migrating them to your database.</p> <p>1) First create your Django <strong>models</strong>, so you would know what data you need, the name of your fields, etc... for example :</p> <pre><code>class DictEntry(Model): keyword = CharField(max_length=100) definition = CharField(max_length=100) </code></pre> <p>2) It seems like some of the files on the link you gave are in csv format (it seems also like you can have them in xml). With the <a href="http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">csv</a> module from standard library, you could extract these files to python.</p> <p>3) and then with the json or yaml python libraries, you dump these files back to a different format (json or yaml) as described in <a href="http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/initial-data/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">initial data for your model</a>. And <strong><em>magic</em></strong> your initial data is ready !</p> <p>PS : the good thing with python : you google 'python json' you will find the official doc because a library for writing/reading json is part of the standard python lib !!! Idem with xml and csv ...</p>

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