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.. _package-upload:
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Uploading Packages to the Package Index
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***************************************
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.. versionadded:: 2.5
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The Python Package Index (PyPI) not only stores the package info, but also the
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package data if the author of the package wishes to. The distutils command
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:command:`upload` pushes the distribution files to PyPI.
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The command is invoked immediately after building one or more distribution
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files. For example, the command ::
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python setup.py sdist bdist_wininst upload
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will cause the source distribution and the Windows installer to be uploaded to
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PyPI. Note that these will be uploaded even if they are built using an earlier
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invocation of :file:`setup.py`, but that only distributions named on the command
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line for the invocation including the :command:`upload` command are uploaded.
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The :command:`upload` command uses the username, password, and repository URL
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from the :file:`$HOME/.pypirc` file (see section :ref:`pypirc` for more on this
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file). If a :command:`register` command was previously called in the same command,
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and if the password was entered in the prompt, :command:`upload` will reuse the
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entered password. This is useful if you do not want to store a clear text
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password in the :file:`$HOME/.pypirc` file.
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You can specify another PyPI server with the ``--repository=url`` option::
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python setup.py sdist bdist_wininst upload -r http://example.com/pypi
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See section :ref:`pypirc` for more on defining several servers.
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You can use the ``--sign`` option to tell :command:`upload` to sign each
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uploaded file using GPG (GNU Privacy Guard). The :program:`gpg` program must
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be available for execution on the system :envvar:`PATH`. You can also specify
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which key to use for signing using the ``--identity=name`` option.
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Other :command:`upload` options include ``--repository=url`` or
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``--repository=section`` where *url* is the url of the server and
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*section* the name of the section in :file:`$HOME/.pypirc`, and
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``--show-response`` (which displays the full response text from the PyPI
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server for help in debugging upload problems).
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PyPI package display
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====================
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The ``long_description`` field plays a special role at PyPI. It is used by
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the server to display a home page for the registered package.
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If you use the `reStructuredText <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html>`_
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syntax for this field, PyPI will parse it and display an HTML output for
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the package home page.
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The ``long_description`` field can be attached to a text file located
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in the package::
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from distutils.core import setup
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with open('README.txt') as file:
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long_description = file.read()
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setup(name='Distutils',
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long_description=long_description)
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In that case, :file:`README.txt` is a regular reStructuredText text file located
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in the root of the package besides :file:`setup.py`.
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To prevent registering broken reStructuredText content, you can use the
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:program:`rst2html` program that is provided by the :mod:`docutils` package
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and check the ``long_description`` from the command line::
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$ python setup.py --long-description | rst2html.py > output.html
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:mod:`docutils` will display a warning if there's something wrong with your
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syntax. Because PyPI applies additional checks (e.g. by passing ``--no-raw``
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to ``rst2html.py`` in the command above), being able to run the command above
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without warnings does not guarantee that PyPI will convert the content
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successfully.
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