PyPi Issues - Download Error (401): You must be identified to edit package information

Question

I ran into a pypi problem like this , except that I am launching windows and the specified solution page is not available.

Does anyone know how to get around this? I am using python 2.5.

python setup.py sdist register upload running register We need to know who you are, so please choose either: 1. use your existing login, 2. register as a new user, 3. have the server generate a new password for you (and email it to you), or 4. quit Your selection [default 1]: 1 Username: tschellenbach Password: Server response (200): OK running upload Submitting dist\django-ogone-1.0.0.zip to http://pypi.python.org/pypi Upload failed (401): You must be identified to edit package information 

Answer 1

the answer for this seems not very specific for Windows, try: accepted answer It basically says that you need a .pypirc file with the following section:

 [server-login]
 username: tschellenbach
 password: ******** (the real one)

also this is the relevant documentation (near .pypirc ):

In windows, you need to install HOME environment var to point to the directory where this file is located.