Searching PyPI?

[Jeremy Fincher]

Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> wrote in message news:<7h38ynflxyh.fsf at pc150.maths.bris.ac.uk>...
> What does
> 
>     http://www.python.org/pypi?:action=search_form 
> 
> not provide?  Are you just thinking of writing a front-end to that?

Sure, I could whip up some regexps to snag the information I need from
that.  But that's usually pretty error-prone, and if someone else has
already written the code, I'd be happy to use it :)

It's by nice if PyPI provided some SOAP or xmlrpc server to support
requests, though... :)

Jeremy