just getting started with python, and i'm designing a program for fetching software from the net, given the package name, version number and/or date stamp, download method (tarball, CVS, etc.) and so on. i've already got a shell script doing this, but python would certainly clean up the code a lot.
first question -- does such a utility/module (or something like it) already exist? that is, with the ability to say, "go get me gcc, version 3.4.3, as a tarball"? or "go get me glibc, CVS date stamp xxxx, from that CVS repo"? as for the second question, the driving force behind a fair bit of the current program is "wget", which has the ability to search recursively and bring back a file of a given name (which "curl" doesn't appear to have). that is, i can just say, "go get file gcc-3.4.2.tar.bz2", and start searching at "ftp://pub.gnu.org/pub/gcc";. i may not know how far down in the directory structure that file is, but wget will happily search recursively until it finds it. so, any pointers to python utils/modules that do any or all of the above? thanks. rday -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
