On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>
> I've updated distlib[1] with a new, high-level API for accessing PyPI. While 
> the
> existing "locators" API deals with locating distributions already uploaded to
> PyPI, the "index" API allows the following:
>
> * Registering a project on PyPI
> * Uploading source and binary distributions to PyPI (incl. support for 
> signing)
> * Uploading documentation to PyPI
> * Getting a list of mirror hosts
>
> Basic usage:
>
>>>> from distlib.index import Index
>>>> index = Index() # uses PyPI by default, or you can pass the URL of the 
>>>> index

Very cool, but would it be possible to expand the class name to
something like "PackageIndex"? "Index" is an overloaded word, and that
leading "I" is also a bit of a problem from a readability point of
view.

Regards.
Nick.

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