HTTPError: 401 Client Error: You must be identified to edit package information for url: https://testpypi.python.org/pypi

[nihlaeth]

I'm trying to set up automatic deployment with travis-ci but I keep running into this error no matter what I do: HTTPError: 401 Client Error: You must be identified to edit package information for url: https://testpypi.python.org/pypi.

Relevant debugging steps

• Whenever I try to use twine from home, it works without problems.
• Authentication information has literally been copied from my working .pypirc at home
• The error persists no matter what pypi repository I use
• I tried using the travis-supplied pypi deployer, but that doesn't expose which commands it uses exactly, so I switched to the script I linked below.
• I tried generating .pypirc and putting it in a few different locations, hard linking it, etc. with no effect.
• I tried moving the login information to the [server-login] section Stack overflow
• I upgraded twine to version 1.8.1
• I tried using environment variables with an empty .pypirc according to Repository URL weirdness #206

Links and information

• python version 3.6 (also tested on 2.7 earlier)
• twine version 1.8.1
• build log
• build script
• travis configuration

[sigmavirus24]

I wonder if

cat > ~/.pypirc << _EOF_
[testpypi]
repository = https://testpypi.python.org/pypi
username = ${TWINE_USERNAME}
password = ${TWINE_PASSWORD}

[pypi]
repository = https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
username = ${TWINE_USERNAME}
password = ${TWINE_PASSWORD}
_EOF_

Would work in that script. The key is that instead of cat > .pypirc it does cat > ~/.pypirc and puts the credentials in the section. You could also update your invocation to be twine upload -r pypi dist/*.

To be completely frank, though, I'm not sure why you're seeing this problem.

[nihlaeth]

I had already tried a variation of all those options before, but not this particular combination. I get a different error message now, which is more than I've been able to do all day. Thanks!

Now it's KeyError: "Missing 'testpypi' section from the configuration file\nor not a complete URL in --repository.\nMaybe you have a out-dated '~/.pypirc' format?\nmore info: https://docs.python.org/distutils/packageindex.html#pypirc\n" which I took to mean that there's a problem with the HOME environment variable since travis docs indicate that it shouldn't be relied on (no further information). Unfortunately overwriting it locally doesn't fix it...

This looks to be a distutils error message. Is it twine that reads the .pypirc file or distutils? Because if it's the latter, I should go bug someone else about this. Thanks for your help.

Edit: forget I said anything, I was missing the [distutils] section, and am now back to our original error

[nihlaeth]

I found out what the problem was. My password contained symbols which should be escaped in the shell. This wasn't a problem in my (plaintext) local .pypirc, but on travis it was stored in an environment variable. I foolishly quoted my password to counteract this, only then the quotes were interpreted as part of the password apparently.

I fixed it by changing my password to shell-safe one, rather than mucking about with backslashes.

[taiya]

Same problem, there was a "$3" in the password, and it was interpreted as "third argument" xD
Thanks for the issue, saved me.