Caleb Hattingh wrote: > 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?
You can query the Cheeseshop through XML-RPC, see http://www.inkdroid.org/journal/2005/08/11/pypi-over-xmlrpc/ > Alternatively, how do you all keep versions of python addons > up-to-date? Manually? I use Debian; this automatically gives me updates of all of my packages. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
