Not recognising URL for ‘--repository’ option

[benf-wspdigital]

The --repository option does not recognise a URL to a private package index server.

$ python3 -m twine --version
twine version 1.9.1 (pkginfo: 1.4.1, requests: 2.18.2, setuptools: 28.8.0,
requests-toolbelt: 0.8.0, tqdm: 4.15.0)

$ python3 -m twine upload --repository "https://[email protected]/foo/" dist/*
KeyError: Missing 'https://[email protected]/foo/' section from the configuration file
or not a complete URL in --repository.
Maybe you have a out-dated '~/.pypirc' format?
more info: https://docs.python.org/distutils/packageindex.html#pypirc

Why does Twine complain that the URL is “not a complete URL”? How can I convince Twine to accept that repository URL on the command line?

[jamadden]

I suspect the --repository option is looking for the name of a repository section found in ~/.pypirc (despite what the help says) (It needs to be there so that you can include credentials.) Have you tried that? The format is documented at the link included in the error message.

There is also the --repository-url option, though I haven't tried that.

[sigmavirus24]

Thanks for beating me to this @jamadden :) I believe that's exactly what @benf-wspdigital is looking for

[jamadden]

The help output is confusing to me though. It claims that --repository can accept a URL, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

  -r REPOSITORY, --repository REPOSITORY
                        The repository to register the package to. Can be a
                        section in the config file or a full URL to the
                        repository (default: pypi). (Can also be set via
                        TWINE_REPOSITORY environment variable)
  --repository-url REPOSITORY_URL
                        The repository URL to upload the package to. This can
                        be specified with --repository because it will be used
                        if there is no configuration for the value passed to
                        --repository. (Can also be set via
                        TWINE_REPOSITORY_URL environment variable.)

[sigmavirus24]

That's probably out-dated. I'd be happy to merge a PR to correct that.