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Sponsored by Datadog: pythonbytes.fm/datadog Special guest: Jousef Murad, Engineered Mind podcast (audio, video) Watch on YouTube Brian #1: pip search. Just don’t. pip search [query] is supposed to “Search for PyPI packages whose name or summary contains [query]” The search feature looks like it’s going to be removed and the PyPI api for it removed. Alternative, and better approach, just manually look at pypi.org and search for stuff. Right now it does this: $ pip search pytest ERROR: Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): ... [longish traceback ommited] --- xmlrpc.client.Fault: [Fault -32500: "RuntimeError: PyPI's XMLRPC API has been temporarily disabled due to unmanageable load and will be deprecated in the near future. See https://status.python.org/ for more information."] The Python Infrastructure status page says, as of Jan 12: “Update - The XMLRPC Search endpoint remains disabled due to ongoing request volume. As of this update, there has been no reduction in inbou