API Documentation

PyLucene is currently built against Java Lucene 2.0. It intends to supports the entire Lucene API, except for the RemoteSearchable class. Contributed patches and extensions are most welcome.

PyLucene also includes a number of Lucene contrib packages: the Snowball analyzer and stemmers, the highlighter package, analyzers for other languages than english, regular expression queries and specialized queries such as 'more like this'.

This wiki only covers the pythonic extensions to Lucene offered by PyLucene as well as some differences between the Java and Python APIs. For API the documentation on Java Lucene APIs, please visit: http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/api/index.html

To help with debugging and to support some Lucene APIs, PyLucene also exposes some Java runtime APIs described later.

Contents

• Samples
• Threading Support
• Exception Handling
• Java API Differences
• Pythonic Extensions to the Java API
• Exposed Java Runtime Classes
• Extending Lucene Classes