richard wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > Sorry in advance if this is not the correct forum ... > > Quite. The support link for PyPI is in the sidebar of the site. >
Tried that, when I was trying to register and getting strange error messages about the user name, like "John Machin" and "John_Machin" were not "ascii" [it finally permitted "sjmachin"]. The response volume could not be likened to that of a fire-hose. > > > I'm trying to upload what appears to be a perfectly OK zip file as a > > "source" file type to PyPI, and am getting this response: > > > > Error... > > There's been a problem with your request > > exceptions.ValueError: invalid distribution file > > The *only* valid (perfectly OK) source file to upload is a Source > Distribution as generated by the "sdist" setup.py command. > Which is precisely how the file in question was generated: setup.py sdist --format=zip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
