“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 had this problem, due to my own fault but hopefully this may help someone else who makes this same mistake.

I'm using python 3 on Linux Ubuntu, during registration I issued the setup command using sudo! The result was the .pypirc file in my home directory was owned by root and wasn't readable when trying to perform a module upload immediately after as a none privileged user.

By changing the ownership of the file to myself, the issue was resolved.