[Distutils] PyPi/Warehouse & User Agent Strings

[Cooper Ry Lees]

I don't know what's authoritative, but I can share that it has helped with devpi or bandersnatch having bugs in the past.

Bandersnatch sends something like:
"bandersnatch/2.1.2 (cpython 3.6.3-candidate1, Linux x86_64)"
Code: https://goo.gl/fGgtu8

Cooper

> On Dec 6, 2017, at 4:33 AM, Simon Kennedy <sffjunkie+python at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A few quick questions about pip/pypi and user agent strings.
> 
> Does PyPi/Warehouse do anything with the user agent string or does it just go into the BigQuery system?
> What elements of the user agent string are used?
> Is the pip source code the reference document or is there a separate specification?
> 
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> Simon
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