PyPi bug?

Thu Oct 22 13:40:53 EDT 2015

Nagy László Zsolt wrote:
> Today I have tried to register and upload a new package by executing
>> setup.py register
>>> I was asked if I want to save the creditentials in a .pypirc file and I
> answered yes.
>> Next I wanted to run
>> setup.py upload
>> and I got this error:
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\Python\Projects\some_package\setup.py", line 15, in <module>
> classifiers=['Topic :: Security', 'Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP'],
> File "C:\Python35\lib\distutils\core.py", line 148, in setup
> dist.run_commands()
> File "C:\Python35\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 955, in run_commands
> self.run_command(cmd)
> File "C:\Python35\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 973, in run_command
> cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()
> File "C:\Python35\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 107, in ensure_finalized
> self.finalize_options()
> File "C:\Python35\lib\distutils\command\upload.py", line 46, in
> finalize_options
> config = self._read_pypirc()
> File "C:\Python35\lib\distutils\config.py", line 83, in _read_pypirc
> current[key] = config.get(server, key)
> File "C:\Python35\lib\configparser.py", line 798, in get
> d)
> File "C:\Python35\lib\configparser.py", line 396, in before_get
> self._interpolate_some(parser, option, L, value, section, defaults, 1)
> File "C:\Python35\lib\configparser.py", line 445, in _interpolate_some
> "found: %r" % (rest,))
> configparser.InterpolationSyntaxError: '%' must be followed by '%' or
> '(', found
> : *****************'
>> Instead of the many stars, of course there is the password. The problem
> might be that the password contains a % character, and it was
> incorrectly saved by distutils.
>> Can somebody please confirm that this is a bug in distutils? The we
> probably have to submit a bug report.
>> Thanks,
>> Laszlo

Could be http://bugs.python.org/issue20120 ?