You can use it in your Azure DevOps pipeline to create new flows

project_version_pypi.py

import sys
from json import load
from urllib.request import urlopen

# $(Build.Repository.Name) is expected as parameter
organization, app_name = sys.argv[1].split("/")
env_should_publish = "ENV_SHOULD_PUBLISH"


def return_line_which_has_value(file_name: str, value_to_be_found: str) -> str:
    with open(file_name, mode="r") as file:
        for line in file:
            if value_to_be_found in line:
                return line


def get_latest_version_from_project_in_pypi(project_name: str) -> str:
    project_details = load(urlopen(f"https://pypi.python.org/pypi/{project_name}/json"))
    return project_details["info"]["version"]


def set_value(key, value):
    print(f"Set key {key} as {value}")
    print(f"##vso[task.setvariable variable={key};]{value}")


def do_the_thing(app_name: str):
    line = return_line_which_has_value("setup.py", "version")
    start_of_value = line.index('"') + 1
    end_of_value = line.rindex('"')
    current_version_in_setup_py = line[start_of_value:end_of_value]
    print(f"Current verion in setup.py: {current_version_in_setup_py}")
    current_version_in_pypi = get_latest_version_from_project_in_pypi(app_name)
    print(f"Current verion in PyPI: {current_version_in_pypi}")
    if current_version_in_setup_py != current_version_in_pypi:
        set_value(env_should_publish, True)
    else:
        set_value(env_should_publish, False)


do_the_thing(app_name)