Have you tried out PyIceberg yet? It's a pure Python implementation and it works...

		frisbm 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog fo... Have you tried out PyIceberg yet? It's a pure Python implementation and it works pretty well. It supports a SQL Catalog as well as an In-Memory Catalog via a baked in SQLite SQL Catalog. https://py.iceberg.apache.org/

this looks much simpler than the last time I tried it!