Why do you need lucene if you can use lucene (PyLucene) :)
http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/
It's great and builds against the latest build of lucene
quote from the site:
PyLucene is a Python extension for accessing Java Lucene. Its purpose is to allow the use of Lucene text indexing and search capabilities from Python. It is API compatible with the latest version of Java Lucene, version 2.9.0 of October 13, 2009.
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