omowne / Periphraser

import poliqarp


def contains(connection, query):
    connection.make_query(query)
    connection.run_query(1)
    if connection.get_n_spotted_results() > 0:
        return True
    return False


def connect(corpus):
    connection = poliqarp.Connection()
    connection.make_session()
    connection.open_corpus(corpus)
    return connection