initial import of the packaging package in the standard library
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+"""Spider using the screen-scraping "simple" PyPI API.
+
+This module contains the class SimpleIndexCrawler, a simple spider that
+can be used to find and retrieve distributions from a project index
+(like the Python Package Index), using its so-called simple API (see
+reference implementation available at http://pypi.python.org/simple/).
+"""
+
+import http.client
+import re
+import socket
+import sys
+import urllib.request
+import urllib.parse
+import urllib.error
+import os
+
+
+from fnmatch import translate
+from packaging import logger
+from packaging.metadata import Metadata
+from packaging.version import get_version_predicate
+from packaging import __version__ as packaging_version
+from packaging.pypi.base import BaseClient
+from packaging.pypi.dist import (ReleasesList, EXTENSIONS,
+                                  get_infos_from_url, MD5_HASH)
+from packaging.pypi.errors import (PackagingPyPIError, DownloadError,
+                                    UnableToDownload, CantParseArchiveName,
+                                    ReleaseNotFound, ProjectNotFound)
+from packaging.pypi.mirrors import get_mirrors
+from packaging.metadata import Metadata
+
+__all__ = ['Crawler', 'DEFAULT_SIMPLE_INDEX_URL']
+
+# -- Constants -----------------------------------------------
+DEFAULT_SIMPLE_INDEX_URL = "http://a.pypi.python.org/simple/"
+DEFAULT_HOSTS = ("*",)
+SOCKET_TIMEOUT = 15
+USER_AGENT = "Python-urllib/%s packaging/%s" % (
+    sys.version[:3], packaging_version)
+
+# -- Regexps -------------------------------------------------
+EGG_FRAGMENT = re.compile(r'^egg=([-A-Za-z0-9_.]+)$')
+HREF = re.compile("""href\\s*=\\s*['"]?([^'"> ]+)""", re.I)
+URL_SCHEME = re.compile('([-+.a-z0-9]{2,}):', re.I).match
+
+# This pattern matches a character entity reference (a decimal numeric
+# references, a hexadecimal numeric reference, or a named reference).
+ENTITY_SUB = re.compile(r'&(#(\d+|x[\da-fA-F]+)|[\w.:-]+);?').sub
+REL = re.compile("""<([^>]*\srel\s*=\s*['"]?([^'">]+)[^>]*)>""", re.I)
+
+
+def socket_timeout(timeout=SOCKET_TIMEOUT):
+    """Decorator to add a socket timeout when requesting pages on PyPI.
+    """
+    def _socket_timeout(func):
+        def _socket_timeout(self, *args, **kwargs):
+            old_timeout = socket.getdefaulttimeout()
+            if hasattr(self, "_timeout"):
+                timeout = self._timeout
+            socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout)
+            try:
+                return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
+            finally:
+                socket.setdefaulttimeout(old_timeout)
+        return _socket_timeout
+    return _socket_timeout
+
+
+def with_mirror_support():
+    """Decorator that makes the mirroring support easier"""
+    def wrapper(func):
+        def wrapped(self, *args, **kwargs):
+            try:
+                return func(self, *args, **kwargs)
+            except DownloadError:
+                # if an error occurs, try with the next index_url
+                if self._mirrors_tries >= self._mirrors_max_tries:
+                    try:
+                        self._switch_to_next_mirror()
+                    except KeyError:
+                        raise UnableToDownload("Tried all mirrors")
+                else:
+                    self._mirrors_tries += 1
+                self._projects.clear()
+                return wrapped(self, *args, **kwargs)
+        return wrapped
+    return wrapper
+
+
+class Crawler(BaseClient):
+    """Provides useful tools to request the Python Package Index simple API.
+
+    You can specify both mirrors and mirrors_url, but mirrors_url will only be
+    used if mirrors is set to None.
+
+    :param index_url: the url of the simple index to search on.
+    :param prefer_final: if the version is not mentioned, and the last
+                         version is not a "final" one (alpha, beta, etc.),
+                         pick up the last final version.
+    :param prefer_source: if the distribution type is not mentioned, pick up
+                          the source one if available.
+    :param follow_externals: tell if following external links is needed or
+                             not. Default is False.
+    :param hosts: a list of hosts allowed to be processed while using
+                  follow_externals=True. Default behavior is to follow all
+                  hosts.
+    :param follow_externals: tell if following external links is needed or
+                             not. Default is False.
+    :param mirrors_url: the url to look on for DNS records giving mirror
+                        adresses.
+    :param mirrors: a list of mirrors (see PEP 381).
+    :param timeout: time in seconds to consider a url has timeouted.
+    :param mirrors_max_tries": number of times to try requesting informations
+                               on mirrors before switching.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, index_url=DEFAULT_SIMPLE_INDEX_URL, prefer_final=False,
+                 prefer_source=True, hosts=DEFAULT_HOSTS,
+                 follow_externals=False, mirrors_url=None, mirrors=None,
+                 timeout=SOCKET_TIMEOUT, mirrors_max_tries=0):
+        super(Crawler, self).__init__(prefer_final, prefer_source)
+        self.follow_externals = follow_externals
+
+        # mirroring attributes.
+        if not index_url.endswith("/"):
+            index_url += "/"
+        # if no mirrors are defined, use the method described in PEP 381.
+        if mirrors is None:
+            mirrors = get_mirrors(mirrors_url)
+        self._mirrors = set(mirrors)
+        self._mirrors_used = set()
+        self.index_url = index_url
+        self._mirrors_max_tries = mirrors_max_tries
+        self._mirrors_tries = 0
+        self._timeout = timeout
+
+        # create a regexp to match all given hosts
+        self._allowed_hosts = re.compile('|'.join(map(translate, hosts))).match
+
+        # we keep an index of pages we have processed, in order to avoid
+        # scanning them multple time (eg. if there is multiple pages pointing
+        # on one)
+        self._processed_urls = []
+        self._projects = {}
+
+    @with_mirror_support()
+    def search_projects(self, name=None, **kwargs):
+        """Search the index for projects containing the given name.
+
+        Return a list of names.
+        """
+        with self._open_url(self.index_url) as index:
+            if '*' in name:
+                name.replace('*', '.*')
+            else:
+                name = "%s%s%s" % ('*.?', name, '*.?')
+            name = name.replace('*', '[^<]*')  # avoid matching end tag
+            projectname = re.compile('<a[^>]*>(%s)</a>' % name, re.I)
+            matching_projects = []
+
+            index_content = index.read()
+
+        # FIXME should use bytes I/O and regexes instead of decoding
+        index_content = index_content.decode()
+
+        for match in projectname.finditer(index_content):
+            project_name = match.group(1)
+            matching_projects.append(self._get_project(project_name))
+        return matching_projects
+
+    def get_releases(self, requirements, prefer_final=None,
+                     force_update=False):
+        """Search for releases and return a ReleaseList object containing
+        the results.
+        """
+        predicate = get_version_predicate(requirements)
+        if predicate.name.lower() in self._projects and not force_update:
+            return self._projects.get(predicate.name.lower())
+        prefer_final = self._get_prefer_final(prefer_final)
+        logger.info('reading info on PyPI about %s', predicate.name)
+        self._process_index_page(predicate.name)
+
+        if predicate.name.lower() not in self._projects:
+            raise ProjectNotFound()
+
+        releases = self._projects.get(predicate.name.lower())
+        releases.sort_releases(prefer_final=prefer_final)
+        return releases
+
+    def get_release(self, requirements, prefer_final=None):
+        """Return only one release that fulfill the given requirements"""
+        predicate = get_version_predicate(requirements)
+        release = self.get_releases(predicate, prefer_final)\
+                      .get_last(predicate)
+        if not release:
+            raise ReleaseNotFound("No release matches the given criterias")
+        return release
+
+    def get_distributions(self, project_name, version):
+        """Return the distributions found on the index for the specific given
+        release"""
+        # as the default behavior of get_release is to return a release
+        # containing the distributions, just alias it.
+        return self.get_release("%s (%s)" % (project_name, version))
+
+    def get_metadata(self, project_name, version):
+        """Return the metadatas from the simple index.
+
+        Currently, download one archive, extract it and use the PKG-INFO file.
+        """
+        release = self.get_distributions(project_name, version)
+        if not release.metadata:
+            location = release.get_distribution().unpack()
+            pkg_info = os.path.join(location, 'PKG-INFO')
+            release.metadata = Metadata(pkg_info)
+        return release
+
+    def _switch_to_next_mirror(self):
+        """Switch to the next mirror (eg. point self.index_url to the next
+        mirror url.
+
+        Raise a KeyError if all mirrors have been tried.
+        """
+        self._mirrors_used.add(self.index_url)
+        index_url = self._mirrors.pop()
+        if not ("http://" or "https://" or "file://") in index_url:
+            index_url = "http://%s" % index_url
+
+        if not index_url.endswith("/simple"):
+            index_url = "%s/simple/" % index_url
+
+        self.index_url = index_url
+
+    def _is_browsable(self, url):
+        """Tell if the given URL can be browsed or not.
+
+        It uses the follow_externals and the hosts list to tell if the given
+        url is browsable or not.
+        """
+        # if _index_url is contained in the given URL, we are browsing the
+        # index, and it's always "browsable".
+        # local files are always considered browable resources
+        if self.index_url in url or urllib.parse.urlparse(url)[0] == "file":
+            return True
+        elif self.follow_externals:
+            if self._allowed_hosts(urllib.parse.urlparse(url)[1]):  # 1 is netloc
+                return True
+            else:
+                return False
+        return False
+
+    def _is_distribution(self, link):
+        """Tell if the given URL matches to a distribution name or not.
+        """
+        #XXX find a better way to check that links are distributions
+        # Using a regexp ?
+        for ext in EXTENSIONS:
+            if ext in link:
+                return True
+        return False
+
+    def _register_release(self, release=None, release_info={}):
+        """Register a new release.
+
+        Both a release or a dict of release_info can be provided, the prefered
+        way (eg. the quicker) is the dict one.
+
+        Return the list of existing releases for the given project.
+        """
+        # Check if the project already has a list of releases (refering to
+        # the project name). If not, create a new release list.
+        # Then, add the release to the list.
+        if release:
+            name = release.name
+        else:
+            name = release_info['name']
+        if not name.lower() in self._projects:
+            self._projects[name.lower()] = ReleasesList(name, index=self._index)
+
+        if release:
+            self._projects[name.lower()].add_release(release=release)
+        else:
+            name = release_info.pop('name')
+            version = release_info.pop('version')
+            dist_type = release_info.pop('dist_type')
+            self._projects[name.lower()].add_release(version, dist_type,
+                                                     **release_info)
+        return self._projects[name.lower()]
+
+    def _process_url(self, url, project_name=None, follow_links=True):
+        """Process an url and search for distributions packages.
+
+        For each URL found, if it's a download, creates a PyPIdistribution
+        object. If it's a homepage and we can follow links, process it too.
+
+        :param url: the url to process
+        :param project_name: the project name we are searching for.
+        :param follow_links: Do not want to follow links more than from one
+                             level. This parameter tells if we want to follow
+                             the links we find (eg. run recursively this
+                             method on it)
+        """
+        with self._open_url(url) as f:
+            base_url = f.url
+            if url not in self._processed_urls:
+                self._processed_urls.append(url)
+                link_matcher = self._get_link_matcher(url)
+                for link, is_download in link_matcher(f.read().decode(), base_url):
+                    if link not in self._processed_urls:
+                        if self._is_distribution(link) or is_download:
+                            self._processed_urls.append(link)
+                            # it's a distribution, so create a dist object
+                            try:
+                                infos = get_infos_from_url(link, project_name,
+                                            is_external=not self.index_url in url)
+                            except CantParseArchiveName as e:
+                                logger.warning(
+                                    "version has not been parsed: %s", e)
+                            else:
+                                self._register_release(release_info=infos)
+                        else:
+                            if self._is_browsable(link) and follow_links:
+                                self._process_url(link, project_name,
+                                    follow_links=False)
+
+    def _get_link_matcher(self, url):
+        """Returns the right link matcher function of the given url
+        """
+        if self.index_url in url:
+            return self._simple_link_matcher
+        else:
+            return self._default_link_matcher
+
+    def _get_full_url(self, url, base_url):
+        return urllib.parse.urljoin(base_url, self._htmldecode(url))
+
+    def _simple_link_matcher(self, content, base_url):
+        """Yield all links with a rel="download" or rel="homepage".
+
+        This matches the simple index requirements for matching links.
+        If follow_externals is set to False, dont yeld the external
+        urls.
+
+        :param content: the content of the page we want to parse
+        :param base_url: the url of this page.
+        """
+        for match in HREF.finditer(content):
+            url = self._get_full_url(match.group(1), base_url)
+            if MD5_HASH.match(url):
+                yield (url, True)
+
+        for match in REL.finditer(content):
+            # search for rel links.
+            tag, rel = match.groups()
+            rels = [s.strip() for s in rel.lower().split(',')]
+            if 'homepage' in rels or 'download' in rels:
+                for match in HREF.finditer(tag):
+                    url = self._get_full_url(match.group(1), base_url)
+                    if 'download' in rels or self._is_browsable(url):
+                        # yield a list of (url, is_download)
+                        yield (url, 'download' in rels)
+
+    def _default_link_matcher(self, content, base_url):
+        """Yield all links found on the page.
+        """
+        for match in HREF.finditer(content):
+            url = self._get_full_url(match.group(1), base_url)
+            if self._is_browsable(url):
+                yield (url, False)
+
+    @with_mirror_support()
+    def _process_index_page(self, name):
+        """Find and process a PyPI page for the given project name.
+
+        :param name: the name of the project to find the page
+        """
+        # Browse and index the content of the given PyPI page.
+        url = self.index_url + name + "/"
+        self._process_url(url, name)
+
+    @socket_timeout()
+    def _open_url(self, url):
+        """Open a urllib2 request, handling HTTP authentication, and local
+        files support.
+
+        """
+        scheme, netloc, path, params, query, frag = urllib.parse.urlparse(url)
+
+        # authentication stuff
+        if scheme in ('http', 'https'):
+            auth, host = urllib.parse.splituser(netloc)
+        else:
+            auth = None
+
+        # add index.html automatically for filesystem paths
+        if scheme == 'file':
+            if url.endswith('/'):
+                url += "index.html"
+
+        # add authorization headers if auth is provided
+        if auth:
+            auth = "Basic " + \
+                urllib.parse.unquote(auth).encode('base64').strip()
+            new_url = urllib.parse.urlunparse((
+                scheme, host, path, params, query, frag))
+            request = urllib.request.Request(new_url)
+            request.add_header("Authorization", auth)
+        else:
+            request = urllib.request.Request(url)
+        request.add_header('User-Agent', USER_AGENT)
+        try:
+            fp = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
+        except (ValueError, http.client.InvalidURL) as v:
+            msg = ' '.join([str(arg) for arg in v.args])
+            raise PackagingPyPIError('%s %s' % (url, msg))
+        except urllib.error.HTTPError as v:
+            return v
+        except urllib.error.URLError as v:
+            raise DownloadError("Download error for %s: %s" % (url, v.reason))
+        except http.client.BadStatusLine as v:
+            raise DownloadError('%s returned a bad status line. '
+                'The server might be down, %s' % (url, v.line))
+        except http.client.HTTPException as v:
+            raise DownloadError("Download error for %s: %s" % (url, v))
+        except socket.timeout:
+            raise DownloadError("The server timeouted")
+
+        if auth:
+            # Put authentication info back into request URL if same host,
+            # so that links found on the page will work
+            s2, h2, path2, param2, query2, frag2 = \
+                urllib.parse.urlparse(fp.url)
+            if s2 == scheme and h2 == host:
+                fp.url = urllib.parse.urlunparse(
+                    (s2, netloc, path2, param2, query2, frag2))
+        return fp
+
+    def _decode_entity(self, match):
+        what = match.group(1)
+        if what.startswith('#x'):
+            what = int(what[2:], 16)
+        elif what.startswith('#'):
+            what = int(what[1:])
+        else:
+            from html.entities import name2codepoint
+            what = name2codepoint.get(what, match.group(0))
+        return chr(what)
+
+    def _htmldecode(self, text):
+        """Decode HTML entities in the given text."""
+        return ENTITY_SUB(self._decode_entity, text)