FYI: PyLucene 3.4 EGGs for Windows (Python 2.6 and 2.7) are available now on pylucene-extra: <http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/pylucene-extra/> http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/pylucene-extra/ of course JCC 2.11 EGGs are available too. regards Thomas