Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The question I want to answer is e.g. “what is the latest release for a given Python version X.Y”?

I build a CPython installation automation tool for Windows. It can be used to install a Python directly from the command line, e.g. pythonup install 3.6. Currently I maintain a hard-coded mapping file to point 3.6 to 3.6.7, but this means I need to release a new version every time CPython does.

I wish to automate the process by asking the python.org API for this information, but the current API design makes it very awkward. From what I can tell, I need to

1. Request /downloads/release/ to get a long list of available releases.
2. Parse the name manually to find releases starting with 3.6., and choose the latest.
3. Parse the URI to get the release ID.
4. Request /downloads/release_file/ with the request ID to get a list of files for that release.
5. Parse the file names to find what I want.

Describe the solution you'd like

There are several things I would like to have to make the process more robust, but things that would benefit my workflow most would be

• Allow more advanced filtering on /downloads/release/. The most ideal is like version_xy=3.6, but even something like slug__startswith=python-36 would be tremendously helpful.
• Add the resource ID in /downloads/release/’s returned payload, or allow /downloads/release_file/ to be filtered on slug or resource URI. Currently release only has slug and resource_uri, but neither of them can be used to filter release_file.