Tarek Ziade wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I was wondering how the search works in PyPI (didn't have time to digg the
>  code)
>  
>  I was unable to do specific queries. For instance, how do I get the packages
>  that have
>  the word "nose" and the word "plugin" in their short descriptions ?
>  
>  I tried 'nose AND plugin', 'nose+plugin', etc.. without success.
>  
>  I tried '"nose plugin"' and I got back a package that had this sequence of
>  words, but also had a package that
>  has nothing to do with it (z3c.sampledata
>  0.1.0<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/z3c.sampledata/0.1.0>
>  )
>  

Try "nose%plugin". Thats the syntax used in the XML-RPC API at least.

--Noah