
Uploading Packages to the Package Index
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The Python Package Index (PyPI) not only stores the package info, but
also  the package data if the author of the package wishes to. The
distutils command **upload** pushes the distribution files to PyPI.

The command is invoked immediately after building one or more
distribution files.  For example, the command

   python setup.py sdist bdist_wininst upload

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 ``setup.py``, but that only
distributions named on the command line for the invocation including
the **upload** command are uploaded.

The **upload** command uses the username, password, and repository URL
from the ``$HOME/.pypirc`` file (see section *The .pypirc file* for
more on this file).

You can specify another PyPI server with the *--repository=*url**
option:

   python setup.py sdist bdist_wininst upload -r http://example.com/pypi

See section *The .pypirc file* for more on defining several servers.

You can use the *--sign* option to tell **upload** to sign each
uploaded file using GPG (GNU Privacy Guard).  The  **gpg** program
must be available for execution on the system **PATH**.  You can also
specify which key to use for signing using the *--identity=*name**
option.

Other **upload** options include  *--repository=*url** or
*--repository=*section** where *url* is the url of the server and
*section* the name of the section in ``$HOME/.pypirc``, and *--show-
response* (which displays the full response text from the PyPI server
for help in debugging upload problems).
