setup.py and PyPI

[Philip Semanchuk]

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