twine not found (-bash: twine: command not found)

Question

I am trying to use twine to publish my first python package on pypi (of course will add on test-pypi first).

I followed the official guideline on https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/.

But for some reason, twine is not found or not properly installed.

I installed twine using:

pip install twine

"pip list" says twine is installed on pip.

After I upgraded twine and everything, when I tried to run:

twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*

then it says that twine is not found at all:

-bash: twine: command not found . 

My system is mac (high sierra) and I am using python2.7 by conda. Pip is also configured to conda python:

>>pip -V 
>>pip 10.0.1 from /anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip (python 2.7)

I would appreciate your help.

Answer 1

Use python3 -m twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*

Answer 2

Based on @hoefling comments run

pip show twine

That will list all files that belong to the twine package. It will output something like this:

Name: twine
Version: 1.12.1
Summary: Collection of utilities for publishing packages on PyPI
Home-page: https://twine.readthedocs.io/
Author: Donald Stufft and individual contributors
Author-email: [email protected]
License: Apache License, Version 2.0
Location: /Users/hakuna.matata/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages
Requires: pkginfo, readme-renderer, tqdm, requests, requests-toolbelt, setuptools
Required-by: 

Note the first file under Files which is ../../../bin/twine and Location: /Users/hakuna.matata/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages. Of course your user name will replace 'hakuna.matata'

That will lead to a path to package executable at /Users/hakuna.matata/.local/bin which you can add it to your .bash_profile as export PATH="/Users/hakuna.matata/.local/bin:$PATH"

Then, either restart terminal or

source ~/.bash_profile