pip install from Azure DevOps Python Artifacts feed not working

When I attempt to install a package from our Azure DevOps Artifacts feed, I get the error:

Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/company/company_Software/_packaging/PyPI/pypi/simple/
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement as-api (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for as-api

As using pip install -vvv potentially produces confidential information, I cannot provide the full log here. Please feel free to ask any specific questions about the log. In the meantime, I can see promising messages like:

Found index url https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/company/company_Software/_packaging/PyPI/pypi/simple/
Getting credentials from keyring for https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/company/company_Software/_packaging/PyPI/pypi/simple/

And some problematic messages?:

Status code 302 not in (200, 203, 300, 301)
Skipping link: not a file: ...
Given no hashes to check 0 links for project 'as-api': discarding no candidates

Reproduction details

virtualenv .venv
.\.venv\Scripts\activate
python -m pip install -U pip
pip install keyring artifacts-keyring
pip install as-api

This link was used to produce a pipeline to publish the package and the suggested way of installing the package. My approach is now a mix of both option 1 and option 2. Note the use of a php.ini file to set --index-url and the artifacts-keyring package (installing with --pre does not make any difference to the version), so it really doesn't make any difference. However, I have tried both options separately, it doesn't spawn a browser, so it gives the same result.

System details:

• OS: Windows 10
• Python 2.7.17

pip list
Package           Version
----------------- ----------
artifacts-keyring 0.2.8rc0
certifi           2019.11.28
chardet           3.0.4
configparser      4.0.2
entrypoints       0.3
idna              2.8
keyring           18.0.1
pip               19.3.1
pywin32-ctypes    0.2.0
requests          2.22.0
setuptools        42.0.2
urllib3           1.25.7
wheel             0.33.6

Folder structure:

test
  |-- test.py
  |-- .venv
         |-- pip.ini
         |-- ... other virtualenv folders and files

pip.ini:

[global]
extra-index-url = https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/company/company_Software/_packaging/PyPI/pypi/simple/

Further analysis

• Using a clean laptop actually works with the above reproduction details. Other computers in the company also have the same problem, so some of our set up is conflicting with the authentication.

• If we use a pipeline (see this link) to install the as-api package, it works, so I suspect this is an authentication problem, but it's not mentioned on any documentation.

• Using https://username:password@... does not give any authentication error, even with wrong username and password.

• Using the correct username but have symbols in the password triggers interactive mode to enter username and password. However, this gives this error: WARNING: 401 Error, Credentials not correct for https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/company/company_Software/_packaging/PyPI/pypi/simple/as-api/ Note that I am the owner of the Artifacts feed and the team has been added as the owner in the permission tab.

As a workaround:

Looks like you're using option2 from the document to do the install. I happen to see one similar issue which indicates this error message could have something to do with pip.ini(windows) or pip.conf(linux/mac), so I think you can try another approach to avoid something wrong with those configurations.

You can run pip install artifacts-keyring --pre and then run

pip install packageName --index-url https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/xxx/xxx/_packaging/xxx/pypi/simple/ -vvv --no-deps

You would meet something like this when running command pip install artifacts-keyring --pre:

After the login-in passes, you would get the package you need if it do exist in your feed.

My issue was that I had not installed artifacts-keyring. After that I could see VS Code authenticating to the feed and installing the package.

I also needed to upgrade pip (needs to be above > 19.2) with the following command:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

The fix

Do one of the following:

• Remove the VSS_NUGET_EXTERNAL_FEED_ENDPOINTS environment variable (not very useful, not recommended).

• Add an extra endpoint to the VSS_NUGET_EXTERNAL_FEED_ENDPOINTS environment variable. E.g.,

{"endpointCredentials": [{"endpoint":"https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/company/_packaging/NuGetFeed/nuget/v3/index.json", ...},{"endpoint":"https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/company/company_Software/_packaging/PyPI/pypi/simple/", ...}]}

We have a script which sets up these endpoints, so this turns out to be a simple fix.

The cause

It turns out that if you have used artifacts-credprovider to set up another feed, in our case, a NuGet feed with another endpoint, the VSS_NUGET_EXTERNAL_FEED_ENDPOINTS environment variable stores only that feed URL inside the key endpoint. artifacts-keyring will still read that environment variable even if the endpoint doesn't exist, which causes authentication problem. The -vvv log doesn't tell you anything about authentication and it won't attempt to authenticate using another method.