没有.pypirc的Pypi上传？

Question

This thing drives me nuts. Isn't it possible to simply do something like below?

python setup.py sdist upload --username me --password 1234

Or be promped to enter a password with:

python setup.py sdist upload --username me

Being forced to use my password in clear text in a configuration file goes against everything I ever learned about security. Also not being able to manually enter a username and a password is user unfriendly.

Are Python folks from an other universe? Is there a reason they try to make our lives hard?

Answer 1

You can use Twine instead of setup.py for uploading. This has a number of other advantages. In particular, you can test the files before you upload them. It is invoked like this:

twine upload --username me --password hunter2 dist/whatever.whl

Please note that putting a password on the command line is dangerous. It will likely be recorded in ~/.bash_history , or your shell's equivalent.