Search the PyPI for packages by name, which was done by pip search in the past.
This was heavily inspired by pip_search which looks fantastic but is a little slow. Also the output is unnecessary hard to process by other command line tools.
Search the Python Package Index by package name with pps STRING
and sort by name or release date with pps --sort-by (date|name)
cargo install pps
To keep muscle memory in place, you can use
bash
alias pip='function _pip(){
if [ $1 = "search" ]; then
pps "$2";
else pip "$@";
fi;
};_pip
(credits to pip_search)