[Distutils] PyPi upload fails with TypeError

[Ian Cordasco]

Luis, it looks like you're running twine on Python 3 and setuptools is
installed for Python 2. Try doing:

python3 -m pip install setuptools

or

apt-get install -y python3-setuptools

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Luí­s de Sousa
<luis.de.sousa at protonmail.ch> wrote:
> Hi there Ian. Twine is also failling, apparently it can not find setup
> tools, please check the log below.
>
> Cheers.
>
> $ twine upload dist/hex-utils-0.2.sdist
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/twine", line 9, in <module>
>     load_entry_point('twine==1.5.0', 'console_scripts', 'twine')()
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 542,
> in load_entry_point
>     return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line
> 2569, in load_entry_point
>     return ep.load()
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line
> 2229, in load
>     return self.resolve()
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line
> 2235, in resolve
>     module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/twine/__main__.py", line 20, in
> <module>
>     from twine.cli import dispatch
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/twine/cli.py", line 19, in <module>
>     import setuptools
> ImportError: No module named 'setuptools'
>
> $ pip install setuptoolsRequirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to
> upgrade): setuptools in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
>
> $ dpkg -l | grep setuptools
> ii python-setuptools 20.7.0-1 all Python Distutils Enhancements
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Distutils] PyPi upload fails with TypeError
> Local Time: 20 May 2016 8:22 PM
> UTC Time: 20 May 2016 18:22
> From: graffatcolmingov at gmail.com
> To: berker.peksag at gmail.com
> CC: luis.de.sousa at protonmail.ch,Distutils-Sig at python.org
>
> Until then, try using twine (https://github.com/pypa/twine). You'll
> have to make your sdist with `python setup.py sdist` and then upload
> it with `twine upload dist/mypackage.sdist`. But twine will prompt you
> when it can't find a credential for you instead of proceeding onward
> nobly.
>
>