minimal client for the solr REST api

solr_searcher.py

from urllib2 import urlopen
from urllib import urlencode
import simplejson

class SolrSearcher:
    def __init__(self, url):
        self.url = url

    def search(self, q, **kwargs):
        args = {'q': q, 'wt': 'json'}
        args.update(kwargs)
        data = urlencode(args)
        conn = urlopen(self.url, data)
        rsp = simplejson.load(conn)
        return rsp