[New-bugs-announce] [issue12427] packaging register fails because "POST data should be bytes"

[Vinay Sajip]

New submission from Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk>:

vinay at eta-natty:~/projects/nemo$ pysetup3 run register
running register
Registering nemo to http://pypi.python.org/pypi
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/pysetup3", line 4, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/packaging/run.py", line 678, in main
    return dispatcher()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/packaging/run.py", line 667, in __call__
    return func(self, self.args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/packaging/run.py", line 204, in wrapper
    return f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/packaging/run.py", line 344, in _run
    dist.run_command(cmd, dispatcher.command_options[cmd])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/packaging/dist.py", line 761, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/packaging/command/register.py", line 63, in run
    self.send_metadata()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/packaging/command/register.py", line 167, in send_metadata
    auth)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/packaging/command/register.py", line 267, in post_to_server
    result = opener.open(req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/urllib/request.py", line 367, in open
    req = meth(req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/urllib/request.py", line 1075, in do_request_
    raise TypeError("POST data should be bytes"
TypeError: POST data should be bytes or an iterable of bytes. It cannot be str.
vinay at eta-natty:~/projects/nemo$

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils2, Library (Lib)
messages: 139352
nosy: alexis, eric.araujo, tarek, vinay.sajip
priority: high
severity: normal
status: open
title: packaging register fails because "POST data should be bytes"
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.3

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