Fix #368

src/libprs500/gui2/update.py

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+##    Copyright (C) 2007 Kovid Goyal kovid@kovidgoyal.net
+##    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+##    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+##    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+##    (at your option) any later version.
+##
+##    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+##    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+##    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+##    GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+##    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+##    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+##    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+
+import urllib, re
+
+from PyQt4.QtCore import QThread, SIGNAL
+
+from libprs500 import __version__
+from libprs500.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+
+class CheckForUpdates(QThread):
+    
+    def run(self):
+        src = urllib.urlopen('http://pypi.python.org/pypi/libprs500').read()
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(src)
+        meta = soup.find('link', rel='meta', title='DOAP')
+        if meta:
+            src = meta['href']
+            match = re.search(r'version=(\S+)', src)
+            if match:
+                version = match.group(1)
+                if version != __version__:
+                    self.emit(SIGNAL('update_found(PyQt_PyObject)'), version)
+