Pypi: Not allowed to store or edit package information

Question

Pypi problems: Not allowed to store or edit package information. I'm following this tutorial.

.pypirc

[distutils]
index-servers =
    pypi
    pypitest

[pypi]
respository: https://pypi.python.org/pypi
username: Redacted
password: Redacted

[pypitest]
respository: https://testpypi.python.org/pypi
username: Redacted
password: Redacted

setup.py

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

with open('README.rst') as f:
    readme = f.read()

setup(
    name = "quick",
    version = "0.1",
    packages = find_packages(),

    install_requires = ['numba>=0.17.0',
                        'numpy>=1.9.1',],

    url = 'https://github.com/David-OConnor/quick',
    description = "Fast implementation of numerical functions using Numba",
    long_description = readme,
    license = "apache",
    keywords = "fast, numba, numerical, optimized",

)

Command:

python setup.py register -r pypitest

Error:

Server response (403): You are not allowed to store 'quick' package information

I was able to successfully register using the form on pypi's test site, but when I upload using this:

python setup.py sdist upload -r pypitest

I get this, similiar, message:

error: HTTP Error 403: You are not allowed to edit 'quick' package information

I get the same error message when using Twine and Wheel, per these instructions. This problem comes up several times here and elsewhere, and has been resolved by registering before uploading, and verifying the PyPi account via email. I'm running into something else.

Answer 1

From this list one can see all the packages on PyPi:

https://pypi.python.org/simple/

quick is there. The question author says he/she cannot create quick package, so he/she is not the package author on PyPi and somebody else has created a package with the same name before.