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Sat Nov 15 16:59:11 CET 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-November/136959.html

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 November 2014 15:17, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014, at 05:54, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>>> On 15 Nov 2014 10:10, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Incidentally, it would be really useful if python.org provided stable
>>> > > url's that always redirected to the latest .msi installers, for
>>> > > bootstrapping purposes. I'd prefer to not rely on chocolatey (or on
>>> > > scraping the web site) for this.
>>> >
>>> > https://www.python.org/ftp/python/$ver/python-$ver.msi
>>> > https://www.python.org/ftp/python/$ver/python-$ver.amd64.msi
>>>
>>> Right, but what's the URL for "the latest 2.7.x release" or "the latest
>>> 3.x.x release"?
>>
>> The website has an API you know.
>
> Um, no. Where can I find out about it?

I didn't know either, and I've been pointing people to the .msi
installers periodically - just by manually hunting down the latest
link and recommending it. If there's an easy way to define the two
tokens Nathaniel described, I'd like to hear it too.

ChrisA

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