pip search command fails with many results for connections with low bandwidth

[rmaceissoft]

It would better, if the results could be paginated, even an option to specify results by page would be nice

Example of use:

$pip search python --per-page=50

[mihneadb]

What you are requesting would need partially downloading the results. If speed is not an issue and you just want pagination, you could use a pager like this one [1].

[1] https://github.com/mihneadb/suse_bug_reporter/blob/master/bugreporter/util/console.py#L62

[mihneadb]

From what I see here [1], you cannot download only a reduced set of results from pypi.

[1] http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPiXmlRpc

[dstufft]

Closing this, I believe a better way to solve this would be #395, but if not this requires API changes on PyPI before pip can do anything different here.