PyPi bug?

[Kev Dwyer]

Nagy László Zsolt wrote:

> Today I have tried to register and upload a new package by executing
> 
> setup.py register
> 
> 
> I was asked if I want to save the creditentials in a .pypirc file and I
> answered yes.
> 
> Next I wanted to run
> 
> setup.py upload
> 
> and I got this error:
> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Python\Projects\some_package\setup.py", line 15, in <module>
>     classifiers=['Topic :: Security', 'Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP'],
>   File "C:\Python35\lib\distutils\core.py", line 148, in setup
>     dist.run_commands()
>   File "C:\Python35\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 955, in run_commands
>     self.run_command(cmd)
>   File "C:\Python35\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 973, in run_command
>     cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()
>   File "C:\Python35\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 107, in ensure_finalized
>     self.finalize_options()
>   File "C:\Python35\lib\distutils\command\upload.py", line 46, in
> finalize_options
>     config = self._read_pypirc()
>   File "C:\Python35\lib\distutils\config.py", line 83, in _read_pypirc
>     current[key] = config.get(server, key)
>   File "C:\Python35\lib\configparser.py", line 798, in get
>     d)
>   File "C:\Python35\lib\configparser.py", line 396, in before_get
>     self._interpolate_some(parser, option, L, value, section, defaults, 1)
>   File "C:\Python35\lib\configparser.py", line 445, in _interpolate_some
>     "found: %r" % (rest,))
> configparser.InterpolationSyntaxError: '%' must be followed by '%' or
> '(', found
> : *****************'
> 
> Instead of the many stars, of course there is the password. The problem
> might be that the password contains a % character, and it was
> incorrectly saved by distutils.
> 
> Can somebody please confirm that this is a bug in distutils? The we
> probably have to submit a bug report.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>    Laszlo


Could be http://bugs.python.org/issue20120 ?