setup.py and PyPI

[Ethan Furman]

Philip Semanchuk wrote:
> 
> On Dec 14, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> 
>> Philip Semanchuk wrote:
>>
>>> On Dec 14, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Greetings!
>>>>
>>>> I'm using Python 2.5 on Windows XP, and trying to get the upload   
>>>> portion of setup.py to work.  According to what I have found, I  
>>>> can  put my info into a .pypirc file to have the process pick up  
>>>> my  username/password and upload the files.
>>>>
>>>> I have tried putting this file into the same folder I'm running   
>>>> setup.py from, into my home folder (USERPROFILE, I think) -- and  
>>>> the  really frustrating part is that it worked a couple times (but  
>>>> maybe  that was from my home computer) but mostly it does not.
>>>
>>> When it fails, how does it fail?
>>
>>
>> python setup.py sdist bdist --format wininst upload
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> running upload
>> Submitting dist\dbf-0.87.7.zip to http://pypi.python.org/pypi
>> Upload failed (401): You must be identified to edit package  information
> 
> 
> Looks like there's known problems with this under Windows that might  
> affect your version of Python, depending on which version you have.
> http://bugs.python.org/issue1741
> 
> Setting a HOME environment variable to point to wherever you have  your 
> .pypirc file might help.
> 
> Hope this helps
> P

The HOME variable did it!

Many, many thanks!!

~Ethan~