[Distutils] [issue117] Unable to upload package without storing password in ~/.pypirc

[Ted Tibbetts]

New submission from Ted Tibbetts <intuited at gmail.com>:

I can't seem to upload a source distribution without storing my password in ~/.pypirc.

If I have no ~/.pypirc, and I give a the command

    ``$ python setup.py sdist register upload``

and then give my login credentials, this happens at the end:

::

    running register
    Password: 
    Registering terminable_thread to http://pypi.python.org/pypi
    Server response (200): OK
    running upload
    Submitting dist/terminable_thread-0.7.tar.gz to http://pypi.python.org/pypi
    Upload failed (401): Incorrect password

I get similar results if my ``~/.pypirc`` has a line in the ``[pypi]`` section containing just ``password:``, whether or not I omit the ``register`` command.

I was able to upload the distribution by putting my password in ``~/.pypirc``.

The ``upload`` command seems to be checking for the password independently from ``register``; this runs contrary to the documentation_.

.. _documentation: http://docs.python.org/distutils/packageindex.html#pypirc

I'm running the bona fide (not ``distribute``) ``setuptools``, version ``0.6c11``.  This assertion is based on

::

    $ cat `which easy_install` | grep load
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
       load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c11', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()

and the fact that I just deleted my old ``setuptools`` and installed by executing the current tarball from the ``setuptools`` PyPI page.

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messages: 553
nosy: intuited
priority: bug
status: unread
title: Unable to upload package without storing password in ~/.pypirc

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