Overview

Here's the basic gist:

import solr

# create a connection to a solr server
s = solr.SolrConnection('http://example.org:8083/solr')

# add a document to the index
doc = dict(
    id=1,
    title='Lucene in Action',
    author=['Erik Hatcher', 'Otis Gospodnetić'],
    )
s.add(doc, commit=True)

# do a search
response = s.query('title:lucene')
for hit in response.results:
    print hit['title']

More powerful queries

Optional parameters for query, faceting, highlighting and more like this can be passed in as Python parameters to the query method. You just need to convert the dot notation (e.g. facet.field) to underscore notation (e.g. facet_field) so that they can be used as parameter names.

For example, let's say you wanted to get faceting information in your search result:

response = s.query(
    'title:lucene', facet='true', facet_field='subject')

and if the parameter takes multiple values you just pass them in as a list:

response = s.query(
    'title:lucene', facet='true',
    facet_field=['subject', 'publisher'])

Community

Feel free to join our discussion list if you have ideas or suggestions. Also, please add examples to the wiki if you have the time and interest.