New submission from Blake VandeMerwe: In distutils\command\upload.py: On line 152 `if type(value) != type([])` will break if value is a tuple instead of a list, which messes up the lgoic from 155-159 To duplicate, in setup.py: setup( name = 'test setup', ... ... classifiers = ( 'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha', ) ) Traceback: running upload Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 47, in <module> test_suite = 'tests' File "C:\Python34\lib\distutils\core.py", line 148, in setup dist.run_commands() File "C:\Python34\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 955, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "C:\Python34\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "C:\Python34\lib\distutils\command\upload.py", line 65, in run self.upload_file(command, pyversion, filename) File "C:\Python34\lib\distutils\command\upload.py", line 163, in upload_file body.write(value) TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface ---------- messages: 749 nosy: blakev priority: bug status: unread title: commands.upload.upload_file breaks when iterable 'value' is not of type tuple _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker <setuptools@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue161> _______________________________________________