Searching PyPI?

[Michael Hudson]

tweedgeezer at hotmail.com (Jeremy Fincher) writes:

> I was just getting ready to write a module to search PyPI in order to
> add the ability to search PyPI to my application, when I thought,
> "Hey, this is the Python community's package index -- maybe someone's
> already written a module to search PyPI."

What does

    http://www.python.org/pypi?:action=search_form 

not provide?  Are you just thinking of writing a front-end to that?

Cheers,
mwh

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