[New-bugs-announce] [issue4338] TypeError (bytes/str) in distutils command "upload"

[Hagen Fürstenau]

New submission from Hagen Fürstenau <hfuerstenau at gmx.net>:

"python3.0 setup.py upload" (on an otherwise sane setup script) results
in the following:


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 5, in <module>
    import py3setup
  File "/home/MP/hagenf/src/pyskein/py3setup.py", line 22, in <module>
    ext_modules=[ext])
  File "/home/MP/hagenf/local/lib/python3.0/distutils/core.py", line
149, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/home/MP/hagenf/local/lib/python3.0/distutils/dist.py", line
942, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/home/MP/hagenf/local/lib/python3.0/distutils/dist.py", line
962, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File
"/home/MP/hagenf/local/lib/python3.0/distutils/command/upload.py", line
55, in run
    self.upload_file(command, pyversion, filename)
  File
"/home/MP/hagenf/local/lib/python3.0/distutils/command/upload.py", line
116, in upload_file
    auth = "Basic " + base64.encodestring(self.username + ":" +
self.password).strip()
  File "/home/MP/hagenf/local/lib/python3.0/base64.py", line 338, in
encodestring
    raise TypeError("expected bytes, not %s" % s.__class__.__name__)
TypeError: expected bytes, not str

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components: Distutils
messages: 75975
nosy: hagen
severity: normal
status: open
title: TypeError (bytes/str) in distutils command "upload"
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0

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