Searching PyPI?

[Jeremy Fincher]

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."

So has anyone? A quick search of PyPI and http://vex.net/parnassus/
revealed nothing.

Thanks,
Jeremy

 

[Michael Hudson]

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

 

[Jeremy Fincher]

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