New users of Lucene are advised to use this version for new developments, because it has a clean, type safe new API. Summary Until there is better documentation for Lucene 3.0, I recommend you use Lucene 2.4 or 2.9. Nonetheless, I provide a basic indexing and retrieval code using the PyLucene 3.0 API, perhaps the first such example code on the web. Lucene 3.0 (and PyLucene 3.0) can