“setup.py upload” is failing with “Upload failed (401): You must be identified to edit package information”

Question

When running..

python setup.py sdist register upload

..I get the following output:

running register
We need to know who you         


        

Answer 1

Just found this page, which solves the issue:

I also noticed that while it was asking me to save my login information, and I hit Y everytime, it still asked me for the username and password. It turned out that it was saving the information incorrectly as follows:

[pypi]
username:dcramer
password:*******

Changing it out to this solved the problems:

[server-login]
username:dcramer
password:********

The above content goes into the .pypirc file in the user's home directory.

Ugh.. I think this may be a good time to give distribute a try..