.. glossary::
Setuptools
`Setuptools <http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools>`_
builds on Python's ``distutils`` to provide easier building,
distribution, and installation of packages.
Interface
An attribute of a model object that determines its type. It is an
instance of a ``zope.interface`` Interface class.
Zope
`The Z Object Publishing Framework <http://zope.org>`_. The granddaddy
of Python web frameworks.
ZODB
`The Zope Object Database <http://wiki.zope.org/ZODB/FrontPage>`_
which is a persistent object store for Python.
Field index
A type of index that is optimized to index single simple tokenized
values. When a field index is searched, it can be searched for
one or more values, and it will return a result set that includes
these values exacty.
Text index
A type of index which indexes a value in such a way that parts of
it can be searched in a non-exact manner. When a text index is
searched, it returns results for values that match based on
various properties of the text indexed, such as omitting
"stopwords" the text might have.
Facet index
A type of index which can be used for faceted search.
Path index
A type of index that keeps track of documents within a graph;
documents can be searched for by their position in the graph.
zope.index
One `package
<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.index>`_ that hypatia was forked from.
repoze.catalog
`Another package
<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/repoze.catalog>`_ that hypatia was forked from.
Virtualenv
An isolated Python environment. Allows you to control which
packages are used on a particular project by cloning your main
Python. `virtualenv <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv>`_
was created by Ian Bicking.
CQE
A string representing a Python-like domain-specific-language
expression which is used to generate a query object.
Query Object
An object used as an argument to the
:meth:`hypatia.CatalogQuery.__call__` method's ``queryobject`` parameter.