"setup.py upload" is failing with "Upload failed (401): You must be identified to edit package information"

Just found this page, which solves the issue:

I also noticed that while it was asking me to save my login information, and I hit Y everytime, it still asked me for the username and password. It turned out that it was saving the information incorrectly as follows:

[pypi]
username:dcramer
password:*******

Changing it out to this solved the problems:

[server-login]
username:dcramer
password:********

The above content goes into the .pypirc file in the user's home directory.

Ugh.. I think this may be a good time to give distribute a try..

None of the changes to ~/.pypirc listed here worked for me.

This worked for me, with no changes to ~/.pypirc. I added "-r https://www.python.org/pypi" to the command line:

python setup.py register sdist upload -r https://www.python.org/pypi

My ~/.pypirc looks like this

[distutils]
index-servers: pypi

[pypi]
username: dlink
password: ******** (the real one)

I have the same problem， This is my solution.

The python version is 2.7.7, my windows version is Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1.

here is my .pypirc file

[distutils]
index-servers=pypi

[pypi]
repository = https://pypi.python.org/pypi

[server-login]
username = user
password = password

Notice:

In windows, A file is not allowed named as “.pypirc”，plz，refer to：

Rename files to empty filename in Windows

Then put you ".pypirc" file in the same folder with "setup.py"

At last:

run :

python setup.py sdist upload

or:

python setup.py sdist register upload

I hope this will be help,thank you!

I have this problem and solved it by putting the file .pypirc under my home directory (~/), as the last past of the first comment suggests.

I didn't have the need to modify the name of the section "pypi" of the file pypirc for "server-login", as suggested also in the first comment.