“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

I changed [distutils] to [pypirc] as per the docs and this worked for me.

Here is my ~/.pypirc file:

[pypirc]
index-servers =
    pypi
    pypitest

[pypi]
repository=https://pypi.python.org/pypi

[pypitest]
repository=https://testpypi.python.org/pypi

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