[Python-Dev] OneGet provider for Python (original) (raw)

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Mon Nov 17 20:23:24 CET 2014

In article <CACac1F9WEpiw49i5HAm-heZDWmypdMYM6Dfnrf93ZXewJ3Fw6A at mail.gmail.com>, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

I don't know if this got lost in the other messages in this thread, but is there a stable URL for "the latest Python 3.4 MSI for Windows amd64" (or similar)?

AFAIK, no, there is no such stable URL that directly downloads the latest installer(s) for a platform; the closest is probably https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ which would require scraping. I'm not sure we would want to encourage such a thing; we want downloaders to read the web page information for each release and make an informed choice. And the number of installer variants may change from release to release for a platform, as was recently the case with the OS X installers. For testing purposes, scraping the web pages or using the (undocumented, see the code base on github) website JSON API are probably the best options now. You could open an issue on the website github issue tracker.

-- Ned Deily, nad at acm.org

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