Meet Sphinxit!
This fork is maintained by Future Colors.
Sphinxit is light and powerful SphinxQL query constructor. More, it is the set of helpers to make search with Sphinx easy to use in any kind of Python projects like Django, Flask and others. Sphinxit is independent Python library and you are free to use it anywhere you need powerful Sphinx-based search.
Make full-text queries, filtering, ordering, grouping and aggregating your search results. Forget about deprecated Sphinx API or unpredictable non-tested batteries. Sphinxit is just better.
Documentation and examples are on RTD: http://sphinxit.readthedocs.org/