Error using upload with twine 1.4.0

[felipevolpone]

I tried this command

$ twine upload dist/*

using twine 1.4.0 but I got this error:

$ twine upload dist/
usage: twine [-h] [--version] {}
twine: error: argument command: invalid choice: 'upload' (choose from )

[sigmavirus24]

How did you install twine?

[felipevolpone]

$ pip install twine

I've installed the 1.3.0 version and everything worked well.

[sigmavirus24]

@felipevolpone in a virtualenv? Globally as root? That does not give me enough information to help you

[sigmavirus24]

May as well give me the version of pip too

[felipevolpone]

Hey, I'm just trying to help the project.
I ran as root, using $sudo pip install twine. My version of pip is: pip 1.5.6 from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.5.6-py2.7.egg (python 2.7), and I'm not using virtualenv.

[sigmavirus24]

One last question, can you do python -c 'import setuptools; print(setuptools.__version__)' please?

[felipevolpone]

$ python -c 'import setuptools; print(setuptools.version)'

0.6c12

[sigmavirus24]

I'll test with that version. For your information @felipevolpone setuptools is now up to v11. So that's a very old version. I'll see how twine behaves with it and if there's anything we can do to support it though.

[sigmavirus24]

$ pip install --force-reinstall 'setuptools==0.6c12'
Downloading/unpacking setuptools==0.6c12
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement setuptools==0.6c12 (from versions: 0.9.8, 1.1.6, 1.2, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 2.0, 2.1.2, 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.2.1, 11.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4, 3.5, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.6, 3.7, 3.7.1, 3.8, 3.8.1, 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.1, 7.0, 8.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.2.1, 8.3, 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.1, 0.6b1, 0.6b2, 0.6b3, 0.6b4, 0.6c1, 0.6c10, 0.6c11, 0.6c2, 0.6c3, 0.6c4, 0.6c5, 0.6c6, 0.6c7, 0.6c8, 0.6c9, 0.7.2, 0.7.3, 0.7.4, 0.7.5, 0.7.6, 0.7.7, 0.7.8, 0.8, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5, 0.9.6, 0.9.7, 0.9.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.1.7, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4, 10.0.1, 10.0.1, 10.0, 10.0, 10.1, 10.1, 10.2.1, 10.2.1, 10.2, 10.2, 11.0, 11.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.0.1, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.2, 3.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.2, 3.3, 3.3, 3.4.1, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.3, 3.4.4, 3.4.4, 3.4, 3.4, 3.5.1, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.2, 3.5, 3.5, 3.6, 3.6, 3.7.1, 3.7.1, 3.7, 3.7, 3.8.1, 3.8.1, 3.8, 3.8, 4.0.1, 4.0.1, 4.0, 4.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.2, 5.0, 5.0, 5.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.2, 5.3, 5.3, 5.4.1, 5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.4.2, 5.4, 5.4, 5.5.1, 5.5.1, 5.5, 5.5, 5.6, 5.6, 5.7, 5.7, 5.8, 5.8, 6.0.1, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.2, 6.1, 6.1, 7.0, 7.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.4, 8.0, 8.0, 8.1, 8.1, 8.2.1, 8.2.1, 8.2, 8.2, 8.3, 8.3, 9.0.1, 9.0.1, 9.0, 9.0, 9.1, 9.1)
Cleaning up...
No distributions matching the version for setuptools==0.6c12

So I'll be testing with 0.6c11 then

[sigmavirus24]

So I don't have the time (or interest) to test each version of setuptools but this seems to be something exclusive to the 0.6 series of setuptools. Upgrading to 0.7.x allows twine to operate perfectly.

Action items from this:

• Add minimum version requirement on setuptools: setuptools>=0.7 to setup.py (since it is a run-time dependency)
• Add setuptools version information to twine --version

[georgesamy]

I had this same issue, uninstalling as root and reinstalling as user did the trick for me
That is,
sudo pip uninstall twine
pip install --user twine