pip list available packages

[Skaperen]

it seems like you are talking about me choosing to use this to package my software projects.  this thread was originally about getting a list of all packages available under the pip command (e.g. what i can install with pip install).  i am not convinced to use pip, yet.  to start with, i'll need to see documentation on the package file format (enough to implement code to create or process these files).  i have done downloads of pip packages and gotten files with an unrecognized format.  for the time being, i will still use my own means, which is hosting a .py or .py.xz or .tar.xz file.