HTTPError: 403 Client Error: The user '' isn't allowed to upload to project 'iotedgedev'.

[jongio]

Describe the bug
Trying to upload via twine. New project. Not registered, but getting this:

HTTPError: 403 Client Error: The user '' isn't allowed to upload to project 'iotedgedev'. See https://test.pypi.org/help/#project-name for more information. for url: https://test.pypi.org/legacy/
This is a 404: https://test.pypi.org/project/iotedgedev/

My code works if I change the package name...but would like to not do that.

Expected behavior
Uploads the package

To Reproduce

Try to upload to that project.

My Platform
using git bash

Additional context

[ewdurbin]

Hello @jongio this project name has already been registered on test.pypi.org and pypi.org.

The users have uploaded releases to PyPI at https://pypi.org/p/iotedgedev, but do not appear to have created any releases on Test PyPI.

As the project name is taken and appears to be an active project it seems selecting another name is your best path forward.

[jongio]

@ewdurbin There is something fishy going on because the project should be registered to my account. I would like to research who created the project because it is likely me or someone on my team. Can you help me track this down? I am the one who released to pypi proper.

[ewdurbin]

Test PyPI and PyPI are completely isolated from one another. Can you confirm that you want to be uploading to TestPyPI?

Taking a closer look, it sure does appear that you're one of the owners on the real PyPI!

[jongio]

Yes, I want to upload the same name to both test and prod pypi, otherwise I would need lots of name replacements through my code and scripts.

Can you add me to that test project or let me know who created it?

Thanks a lot.

[ewdurbin]

@jongio the existing project with no releases has been removed. you can now register it using your TestPyPI user

[jongio]

@ewdurbin - I retried and get this error:

HTTPError: 400 Client Error: This filename has already been used, use a different version. See https://test.pypi.org/help/#file-name-reuse for url: https://test.pypi.org/legacy/

[jongio]

I repushed with a different version in the file name and it worked! Not sure why the other name would have a conflict if there were no releases.

I'm now uploading! Thanks a lot for your help. REALLY appreciate it.

[sank96]

Hi I have the same error of "jongio".

HTTPError: 403 Client Error: The user 'Sankios' isn't allowed to upload to project 'simple_logger'. See https://pypi.org/help/#project-name for more information. for url: https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/

This error occurred when I try to upload the new package to pypi.org.

I checked that a package simple_logger already exists, but I named my package simple-logger.

Is the name changed during the upload?

This is a part of my setup.py file

setuptools.setup(
    name="simple-logger",
    version="0.0.1",

[jamadden]

I checked that a package simple_logger already exists, but I named my package simple-logger.
Is the name changed during the upload?

Yes. PEP 503 defines the PyPI API and states that all project names are normalized:

The name should be lowercased with all runs of the characters ., -, or _ replaced with a single - character.

Thus, the names simple-logger and simple_logger are equivalent.

[sank96]

@jamadden thanks for the explanation

[AnhQuoc533]

Hi @jamadden, I have a similar problem to while trying to upload my package to PyPi (not TestPyPi):

ERROR    HTTPError: 403 Forbidden from https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
         The user '...' isn't allowed to upload to project 'neural_network'. See https://pypi.org/help/#project-name for more information.

I did check and didn't see any uploaded package with the name neural_network or neural-network. Can you help me check this error, please?
My package name is neural-network and the project name is neural_network.
Thank you.

[di]

Please see https://pypi.org/help/#project-name, which explains why this is happening and what you can do about it.