[mycat]

Are there decent recent implementations in python of these? Or tutorials of some sort?

[charlescearl]

The vowpal wabbit library provides an active learning setup https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki/active_le...

I think you launch an active learning server, and the Python application interacts with it.

You may be able to run everything in Python https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/tree/master/py....

Here's further description https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki/Command-l...