[Distutils] PyPi’s predictable download url

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Nick Timkovich <prometheus235 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Aleks Bunin <b at enlnt.com> wrote:
..
> I would guess you need to start from the API (e.g.
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPIJSON) and go wherever it says.

Unfortunately it currently says
"http://pypi.python.org/pypi/<package_name>/json", which does not
work.  It looks like https is now required.  With the http: prefix
curl silently returns nothing.