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

I recently found pyndexter. It provides abstract interface to various different backend full-text search engines/indexers. And it ships with a default pure-python implementation.

These things can be disastrously slow though in Python.