The ruby folks have Ferret. Someone know of any similar initiative for Python? We\'re using PyLucene at current, but I\'d like to investigate moving to pure Python searching.
The only one pure-python (not involving even C extension) search solution I know of is Nucular. It's slow (much slower than PyLucene) and unstable yet.
We moved from PyLucene-based home baked search and indexing to Solr but YMMV.