Is there a pure Python Lucene?

Question

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.

Answer 1

+1 to the Xapian and Pyndexter answers.

Ferret is actually written in C with Ruby bindings on top. A pure Ruby search engine would be even slower than a pure Python one. I would love to see "someone else" write a Cython/Pyrex layer for Python interface to Ferret, but won't do it myself because why bother when there are Python bindings for Xapian.