Twine does not work on Windows

[mhils]

Twine fails on Windows as it apparently treats all input as unicode:

> twine upload dist/*
Uploading distributions to https://pypi.python.org/pypi
Enter your username: mhils
TypeError: must be char, not unicode

> twine upload -u mhils netlib-0.13.0.tar.gz
Uploading distributions to https://pypi.python.org/pypi
TypeError: must be char, not unicode

> twine upload -u mhils -p test netlib-0.13.0.tar.gz
Uploading distributions to https://pypi.python.org/pypi
Uploading netlib-0.13.0.tar.gz
HTTPError: 401 Client Error: Incorrect password

> python --version
Python 2.7.10
> pip freeze | grep twine
twine==1.5.0

twine cuts off the stack trace for some reason, so I don't have any other info - sorry.

[lrq3000]

The error is utils.py, in get_password, getpass.getpass somehow generates a unicode string to print the stars to hide the password, and the Windows console doesn't support unicode.

[lrq3000]

After some quick googling, it seems to be a pretty common problem (see here and even here in django) with getpass on Windows with Python < 3.

Here is a quick and dirty fix, you should maybe adapt it with python version checking and platform checking :

Change

getpass.getpass, 'Enter your password: ',

into:

getpass.getpass, str('Enter your password: '),

[sigmavirus24]

@mhils feel like updating your PR?

[mhils]

Sorry, super busy the last days. It's definitely on my todo list, but may
take a bit. If you want to get it fixed ASAP, go ahead. :-)

Ian Cordasco [email protected] schrieb am Mi., 29. Juli 2015 18:03:

@mhils https://github.com/mhils feel like updating your PR?

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