I've been trying to get lirc support into Entertainer the last few days, and while SOME of pylirc is still able to work, it's incredibly old. I contacted to current maintainer about this, and haven't heard back from yet. Since I need to move quickly to get this module updated, I have mirrored the Sourceforge CVS repository and converted it into a Mercurial repository. It can be found at:

http://hg.ironlionsoftware.com/pylirc2

Please note that I don't intend to fork the project or anything like that. I just plan to continue it's maintenance, specifically for Entertainer, but for the use of anyone who would like to have python bindings to lirc.