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#!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
import re | |
import requests | |
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
from distutils.version import LooseVersion | |
our_version = LooseVersion("1.04") | |
url = "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bc/" | |
html_content = requests.get(url).text | |
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content) | |
print("Our version: {}".format(our_version)) | |
new_version = None | |
for tag in soup.find_all("a"): | |
match = re.match("bc-(?P<version>([A-Za-z0-9\.]+)).tar.(.*)", tag['href']) | |
if match: | |
other_version = LooseVersion(match.group("version")) | |
if other_version > our_version and (not new_version or other_version > new_version): | |
new_version = other_version | |
if not new_version: | |
print("Up to date!") | |
else: | |
print("New upstream release: {0}".format(other_version)) | |
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