[Distutils] setuptools http auth

Mon Apr 23 18:12:44 CEST 2007

At 12:04 AM 4/23/2007 -0700, Rob Cakebread wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have http://anonymous@tools.assembla.com/svn/yolk/trunk/#egg=yolk-dev
>in my PKG-INFO.
>
>When I try to use 'easy_install yolk==dev' I get:
>
>Best match: yolk dev
>Downloading 
>http://anonymous&#64;tools.assembla.com/svn/yolk/trunk/#egg=yolk-dev
>error: Download error for http://anonymous&: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
>
>I can see that when I use 'setup.py register' the @ is changed to &#64;
>Is there any way around this?

Argh.  setuptools.package_index isn't HTML-unquoting URLs.  That needs to 
be fixed.  :(