[Distutils] setuptools http auth

[Rob Cakebread]

On 4/23/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>
> Argh.  setuptools.package_index isn't HTML-unquoting URLs.  That needs to
> be fixed.  :(
>
>

I'm not sure if this is the best way to go about it, I couldn't find
anything in the stdlib
to unencode it, but this works:


--- setuptools/package_index.py (revision 54927)
+++ setuptools/package_index.py (working copy)
@@ -385,6 +385,7 @@
         of `tmpdir`, and the local filename is returned.  Various errors may be
         raised if a problem occurs during downloading.
         """
+        spec = spec.replace("&#64;", "@")
         if not isinstance(spec,Requirement):
             scheme = URL_SCHEME(spec)
             if scheme: