Can one query full name (or version) of selected packages at pypi?

[John Machin]

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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