check_pypi_name

check_pypi_name.check_pypi_name(pypi_package_name, pypi_registry_host=None)

Check if a package name exists on pypi.

TODO: Document the Registry URL construction.

It may not be obvious how pypi_package_name and pypi_registry_host are used I’m appending the simple HTTP API parts of the registry standard specification.

It will return True if the package name, or any equivalent variation as defined by PEP 503 normalisation

rules (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0503/#normalized-names) is registered in the PyPI registry.

>>> check_pypi_name('pip')
True
>>> check_pypi_name('Pip')
True

It will return False if the package name, or any equivalent variation as defined by PEP 503 normalisation

rules (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0503/#normalized-names) is not registered in the PyPI registry.

>>> check_pypi_name('testy_mc-test_case-has.a.cousin_who_should_never_write_a_package')
False

Parameters:

• pypi_package_name –
• pypi_registry_host –

Returns: