Does PyPI have simple urls for package downloads?

Question

Does PyPI support simple download urls? The reason I want to do this, is that I have a PC with curl installed, but not pip. So I would be able to install the package with:

pip install ppci

But since pip is not available, what I want to do is download this package with curl and untar it.

Now I can do this:

curl https://pypi.python.org/packages/4c/e8/fd7241885330ace50d2f7598a2652d4e80c1d922faece7bba88529cf6cfe/ppci-0.5.4.tar.gz
tar xfz ppci-0.5.4.tar.gz

But what I want is a cleaner url, like this:

curl https://pypi.python.org/packages/ppci/0.5.4/ppci-0.5.4.tar.gz

So, that in future I can easily upgrade the version to this:

curl https://pypi.python.org/packages/ppci/0.5.5/ppci-0.5.5.tar.gz

Does this url, or something alike exist, such that I can easily increase the version number and get the newer version without the long hashcode in it?

Answer 1

The right url is:

https://pypi.io/packages/source/p/ppci/ppci-0.5.4.tar.gz

Note that this url will redirect, but curl can handle it with the -L option.

The url format is, as explained below in the comments:

https://pypi.io/packages/source/{ package_name_first_letter }/{ package_name }/{ package_name }-{ package_version }.tar.gz