Python tips and tricks

This is a collection of Python tips and tricks that I encountered and wanted to archive here.

See older versions of package on PyPi

From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25104154/pypi-see-older-versions-of-package

It's perhaps a little inelegant, but it appears that you can go to the URL

  https://pypi.python.org/simple/<package>

And you will get a bunch of links to tarballs for the package.