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The distutils command <strong class="command">upload</strong> pushes the distribution files to PyPI.</p> <p>The command is invoked immediately after building one or more distribution files. For example, the command</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>python setup.py sdist bdist_wininst upload</pre> </div> <p>will cause the source distribution and the Windows installer to be uploaded to PyPI. Note that these will be uploaded even if they are built using an earlier invocation of <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">setup.py</span></tt>, but that only distributions named on the command line for the invocation including the <strong class="command">upload</strong> command are uploaded.</p> <p>The <strong class="command">upload</strong> command uses the username, password, and repository URL from the <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">$HOME/.pypirc</span></tt> file (see section <a class="reference internal" href="packageindex.html#pypirc"><em>The .pypirc file</em></a> for more on this file). If a <strong class="command">register</strong> command was previously called in the same command, and if the password was entered in the prompt, <strong class="command">upload</strong> will reuse the entered password. This is useful if you do not want to store a clear text password in the <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">$HOME/.pypirc</span></tt> file.</p> <p>You can specify another PyPI server with the <em class="xref std std-option">--repository=*url*</em> option:</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>python setup.py sdist bdist_wininst upload -r http://example.com/pypi</pre> </div> <p>See section <a class="reference internal" href="packageindex.html#pypirc"><em>The .pypirc file</em></a> for more on defining several servers.</p> <p>You can use the <em class="xref std std-option">--sign</em> option to tell <strong class="command">upload</strong> to sign each uploaded file using GPG (GNU Privacy Guard). The <strong class="program">gpg</strong> program must be available for execution on the system <span class="target" id="index-0"></span><tt class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal"><span class="pre">PATH</span></tt>. You can also specify which key to use for signing using the <em class="xref std std-option">--identity=*name*</em> option.</p> <p>Other <strong class="command">upload</strong> options include <em class="xref std std-option">--repository=</em> or <em class="xref std std-option">--repository=</em> where <em>url</em> is the url of the server and <em>section</em> the name of the section in <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">$HOME/.pypirc</span></tt>, and <em class="xref std std-option">--show-response</em> (which displays the full response text from the PyPI server for help in debugging upload problems).</p> <div class="section" id="pypi-package-display"> <h2>7.1. PyPI package display<a class="headerlink" href="#pypi-package-display" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">long_description</span></tt> field plays a special role at PyPI. It is used by the server to display a home page for the registered package.</p> <p>If you use the <a class="reference external" href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html">reStructuredText</a> syntax for this field, PyPI will parse it and display an HTML output for the package home page.</p> <p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">long_description</span></tt> field can be attached to a text file located in the package:</p> <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">distutils.core</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">setup</span> <span class="n">setup</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">'Distutils'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">long_description</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nb">open</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">'README.txt'</span><span class="p">))</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>In that case, <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">README.txt</span></tt> is a regular reStructuredText text file located in the root of the package besides <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">setup.py</span></tt>.</p> <p>To prevent registering broken reStructuredText content, you can use the <strong class="program">rst2html</strong> program that is provided by the <tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">docutils</span></tt> package and check the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">long_description</span></tt> from the command line:</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>$ python setup.py --long-description | rst2html.py > output.html</pre> </div> <p><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">docutils</span></tt> will display a warning if there’s something wrong with your syntax.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h3><a href="../contents.html">Table Of Contents</a></h3> <ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#">7. 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