Re: [Fab-user] Pull production version number and download URL from python.org?

[Jorge Vargas]

On a similar note the debian folks keep a "web service" with a ton of
data about their packages

http://dde.debian.net/dde/

I'm sure you can get what you want from there.



On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Christian Vest
Hansen<address@hidden> wrote:
> I was thinking freshmeat because they have (had?) some computer
> readable interfaces, but the python page looks less than well
> maintained. Likewise do the Python package in the cheeseshop :/
>
> I don't know how nice this is, but perhaps you could leech off someone
> else who are known to keep their packages reasonably up to date. Like,
> say:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/lang/python26/distinfo?content-type=text%2Fplain
>
> It will stick to the 2.6 line and I suppose the URL is unlikely to
> change, I reckon.
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:57 AM, s s<address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>        I realize this is a little off-topic, but it's for a good cause; a
>> new recipe!
>>
>>        I'm writing a Fabric recipe for pulling down and installing the
>> latest production version of Python if it's not already on the system.  I'll
>> put it up on the wiki when I'm done.
>>
>>        Does anyone know how to get the current production version in the
>> 2.6.x line from the python.org website?
>>
>>        So far, all I've come up with is going to
>> http://www.python.org/download/releases/, pulling out the sentence "The
>> current production versions are...", parsing out the version number,
>> searching further in the page for the download link, and so on.
>>
>>        Is there something I can query on the python.org site like
>> "production version 2.x series" and "download link to source of production
>> version" type thing?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> S
>> aka/Steve Steiner
>>
>>
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