PyPi Setup Guide

PyPi Setup Guide

PyPi is the python package index for people to upload their packages for anyone to use.

Account Setup

1. Go to pypi.org and create an account, make sure to validate your email.
2. Once your account is created, go to Account Settings and create an API token. Your api token will look like this pypi-OFJou945u2fd0i94u93ut.....
3. Create a .pypirc file in your home directory. The .pypirc file allows you to define the configuration for package indexes, so that you don’t have to enter the URL, username, or password whenever you upload a package. Now the location of this file is very important in most cases it is your home directory. That is where twine will look for the .pypirc file. See this twines install guide for more details.
4. In your .pypirc add the following. Note that the password is your api token.

   [distutils]
   index-servers=
        pypi
        testpypi
        pypi-username
        testpypi-username
   [pypi]
   username = __token__
   password = pypi-OFJou945u2fd0i94u93ut....
   

   If you have a testpypi account with a test api token you can add it to .pypirc as well.

   [testpypi]
   username = __token__
   password = pypi-OFJou945u2fd0i94u93ut....
   

Result

Now your account should be all setup and ready to be used to upload to PyPi.