[pylucene-dev] Best ways to avoid stomping on existing indexes?

[Nick Arnett]

Having wiped out my indexes several times while getting familiar with PyLucene, I'm wondering what 
strategies others are using to avoid this.

I was thinking of using a try/except that tries to write to the index I want to use, and create the 
index if it throws an error.  However, it doesn't seem to throw a Python exception, at least on 
Windows.  It exits with a MSVC++ runtime error, which I'm guessing I can't catch.

I guess I'm just going to write a module whose entire purpose is to create indexes...  But I'd like 
to hear suggestions.

Nick