[Distutils] error message from testpypi.python.org

Thomas Heller theller at ctypes.org
Thu Jan 23 10:42:30 CET 2014


Am 23.01.2014 10:05, schrieb Paul Moore:
> On 23 January 2014 08:28, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:
>> I'm trying out to submit a wheel to testpypi.python.org and then
>> install it from there with pip.  It doesn't work; what does the
>> following error message mean?
>>
>> c:\>py -3.4 -m pip install py2exe -r https://testpypi.python.org/pypi/
>
> The flag -r is for a requirements file. Did you mean -i (--index-url)?

Sure - thanks for that, now it works.
My only excuse is that setup.py uses the -r flag for that purpose...

Thomas




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