diff -r c82c97b2eae1 distutils2/pypi/wrapper.py
--- a/distutils2/pypi/wrapper.py	Mon Feb 27 11:57:12 2012 +0100
+++ b/distutils2/pypi/wrapper.py	Mon Mar 12 14:54:31 2012 -0700
@@ -24,9 +24,10 @@
         retry = True
         exception = None
         methods = [func]
-        for f in wrapper._indexes.values():
-            if f != func.im_self and hasattr(f, func.f_name):
-                methods.append(getattr(f, func.f_name))
+        if hasattr(func, 'f_name'):
+            for f in wrapper._indexes.values():
+                if f != func.im_self and hasattr(f, func.f_name):
+                    methods.append(getattr(f, func.f_name))
         for method in methods:
             try:
                 response = method(*args, **kwargs)