[Distutils] More control over uploading an sdist and egg to PyPI.

[Nick Coghlan]

On 7 December 2013 11:50, Kannan Goundan <kannan at cakoose.com> wrote:
> We use setuptools for our library.  I'm trying to figure out a way to upload
> an sdist and an egg to PyPI without having to put my PyPI credentials in a
> file.  Please let me know if this is not the right mailing list for this
> question.
>
> Our setup is that the entire team has access to the source code repository,
> but only the release managers have access to the credentials needed to make
> releases to PyPI (they're in a "fake" home directory).  To do a release, you
> run:
>
>    cd project-dir
>    HOME="/release-manager-secrets/fake-pypi-home-dir" \
>       python setup.py bdist_egg sdist upload
>
> This works ok, but we would prefer to not have our PyPI credentials on the
> filesystem (unencrypted) at all.  I'd like to run "setup.py bdist_egg sdist"
> first and then run a separate command that uploaded the egg and sdist.  This
> command would ask for my credentials on stdin.
>
> How can I write such a program?  Is there a PyPI HTTP API I can use?  Does
> setuptools have a public interface that I can call?

Hi Kanaan,

I believe twine (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twine/) should work as
the independent upload utility that you're looking for.

Cheers,
Nick.

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