Welcome to the PyLucene project

PyLucene is a Python extension for accessing Java Lucene. Its goal is to allow you to use Lucene's text indexing and searching capabilities from Python. It is API compatible with the latest version of Java Lucene, version 2.4.0 as of October 19th, 2008.

PyLucene is built with JCC, a C++ code generator that makes it possible to call into Java classes from Python via Java's Native Invocation Interface (JNI). PyLucene with JCC can be used with any java runtime environment implementing the JNI.

PyLucene is supported on Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and Windows. Some binaries for PyLucene are available below. See the INSTALL file for information about building PyLucene from sources. See the README file for information and documentation about PyLucene.

Downloads

Sources
- PyLucene with JCC
  PyLucene with JCC requires a JDK, Ant and Python 2.3.5 or higher. Sources for JCC are included in the source tarballs.
  For more details, please refer to INSTALL.
Binaries for PyLucene with JCC
The binaries below were built and offered up for download by PyLucene users. If you have a binary distribution you'd like to have added to the list below, please send a message to pylucene-dev.
- An egg for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard, Intel, Python 2.5) is available here.
- Binary packages for Ubuntu 7.10 are available here.
- A Windows build is available here.
- A Solaris build is available here.

Subversion Repository

Development trunk
The development trunk is at http://svn.osafoundation.org/pylucene/trunk/jcc and is based on Java Lucene 2.4.0.
Release 2.3 maintenance branch
The release-2.3 maintenance branch is at http://svn.osafoundation.org/pylucene/branches/release-2.3 and is based on Java Lucene 2.3.2.

If you need a Subversion client, go to the main Subversion site.

Mailing list

Report bugs

Bugzilla