A guide for updating packages on PyPi

Question

I used this guide to install a new package on PyPi.

Now, I want to update the package. Since I found no guide for this, I tried to do it myself: I updated the versi

Answer 1

I found out what my problem was - I did not delete the old files in the dist folder, so the uploader tried to upload them before the new files, and failed. The solution was to:

a. Delete all files in the dist folder.

b. Update the version number in the setup.py file.

c. Re-create the wheels:

python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

d. Re-upload the new files:

twine upload dist/*

Answer 2

Sorry if i am replying too late but came across the same problem and found a way not to delete the existing dist folder:

after updating the version in setup.py and recreating the wheel file,

twine upload --skip-existing dist/*

will skip the distribution that already exist and upload the newer ones