[Catalog-sig] PyPI mirrors are all up to date

[ken cochrane]

Ouch, does that take a while to gather the number of files?
Is there any open source code that already does this, that I can look at?
I'm thinking packages might be find for now.

Thanks,
Ken


On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, April 16, 2012 at 3:46 PM, ken cochrane wrote:
>
> Is it possible to get the number of packages on each mirror? If so,
> can you let me know and I'll look into adding it.
>
> Not without parsing the simple api. If you just want to know the total
> number of
> names, you can parse the index page for number of links. If you want the
> total number
> of files then you'll need to descend into all 20kish pages as well and pull
> links out of there.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Sebastien Douche <sdouche at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nice! Thanks Ken. Missing only an information imho: the number of
> packages on each mirror (to known if the mirror is really up to date).
>
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