Quite a while back, the idea of automatically creating PKGBUILDs from pypi came up: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-August/002099.html

It'd be really cool if we could get something similar to cabal2arch for PyPI. Checking the PyPiXmlRpc [1] page does not show any field for listing dependencies of the package though. Is there any way of getting the dependencies of a python module programmatically?

[1]: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPiXmlRpc?action=show&redirect=CheeseShopXmlRpc

I've never used PyPi before but I took a quick look at PyPiXmlRpc. The "release_data" method returns a dictionary that included "provides" and "requires" keys, although these do not appear to be correctly populated. As an example, Chaco's "requires" field is empty but its egg file contains "EGG-INFO/requires.txt" which lists several dependencies. If someone knows whom to contact about getting this data into the output, I'll send an email and see what happens. I'll also play around a bit and see if I come up with an alternate way of getting the dependencies. Xyne