On 20/04/2006 7:26 PM, Caleb Hattingh wrote: > Hi everyone > > I suspect this has come up before, but google and group searches for > "python package index query" or "pypi query" and the like haven't > turned anything up. > > I want to monitor the versions of the list of packages I like having > around, and I expect that the python package index might be a good > place to do this. Typically, such packages would include, say, Pyrex > and PyParsing, for example. > > So: I would like to query the package index with a short name (perhaps > wildcarded), and retrieve either the full name (from which to strip the > ver.) or version number, and compare it with what I have on disk. At > this stage, just reporting the differences is fine. > > I could do these steps myself with normal http access and > screen-scraping, but is there already such a system/script somewhere? > Alternatively, how do you all keep versions of python addons > up-to-date? Manually?
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