alexbowe

import nltk

text = """The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital
computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain
or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha...which is
to demean oneself."""

# Used when tokenizing words
sentence_re = r'''(?x)      # set flag to allow verbose regexps
      ([A-Z])(\.[A-Z])+\.?  # abbreviations, e.g. U.S.A.

nz

# http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FAQ#How_can_I_delete_all_documents_from_my_index.3F
# http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UpdateXmlMessages#Updating_a_Data_Record_via_curl

curl "http://index.websolr.com/solr/a0b1c2d3/update?commit=true" -H "Content-Type: text/xml" --data-binary '<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>'

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