An example first: pypi-grep 'pyqt' --
# day status packagename version homepage summary
2009-06-07 3 pydee 0.4.11 http://code.google.com/p/pydee/
Pydee development environment and its PyQt4-based IDE
tools: ...
2009-06-05 4 Sandbox 0.9.5 http://www.qtrac.eu/sandbox.html
A PyQt4-based alternative to IDLE
...
pypi-grep is just a file with one long line per PyPI package,
and a trivial bash script, basically egrep -i `newest pypi-grepfile*`.
Why ? Grepping a local file is very fast and very simple, for old
Unix guys and simple searches:
what's XYZ ?
hg clone http://bitbucket.org/denisb/pypi-grep/
should get pypi-grep and pypi-grepfile-2009-06-08 or the like;
move them to a directory in your PATH.
Notes:
* the pypi-grepfile has only one version per package, the newest;
multiline summaries are folded to one long line
* pypi-grep -h lists the few options
* the data comes from http://pypi.python.org/pypi xmlrpc,
but beware: some packages in list_packages have no
package_releases
or no releasedata, and a few releasedatas timeout
(timeout_xmlrpclib);
what you see is All you get.
* PyPI package names may contain blanks, even non-ascii
* updates ? dunno, ask me
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