An example first: pypi-grep 'pyqt' -->

# day status packagename version homepage summary

2009-06-07 3 "pydee" 0.4.11 http://code.google.com/p/pydee/ Pydee development environment and its PyQt4-based IDE tools: ...

2009-06-05 4 "Sandbox" 0.9.5 http://www.qtrac.eu/sandbox.html A PyQt4-based alternative to IDLE ...

pypi-grep is just a file with one long line per PyPI package, and a trivial bash script, basically egrep -i `newest pypi-grepfile*`.

Why ? Grepping a local file is very fast and very simple, for old Unix guys and simple searches: "what's XYZ ?"

hg clone http://bitbucket.org/denisb/pypi-grep/ should get pypi-grep and pypi-grepfile-2009-06-08 or the like; move them to a directory in your PATH.

Notes:

* the pypi-grepfile has only one version per package, the newest; multiline summaries are folded to one long line * pypi-grep -h lists the few options * the data comes from http://pypi.python.org/pypi xmlrpc, but beware: some packages in list_packages have no package_releases or no releasedata, and a few releasedatas timeout (timeout_xmlrpclib); what you see is All you get. * PyPI package names may contain blanks, even non-ascii * updates ? dunno, ask me