# [Newbie Tip] What to do when you 403 during pypi twine upload

Original: https://swyx.io/pypi-403
Published: 2023-07-03

> I'm pretty new to the pypi packaging ecosystem so recently ran into some trouble pushing a python package:

I'm pretty new to the pypi packaging ecosystem so recently ran into some trouble pushing a python package:

```bash
$ python3 -m twine upload --repository testpypi dist/*

Uploading distributions to https://test.pypi.org/legacy/
Enter your username: swyx
Enter your password: 
Uploading smol_dev-0.1-py3-none-any.whl
100% ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 7.4/7.4 kB • 00:00 • ?
WARNING  Error during upload. Retry with the --verbose option for more details.                                                                                                                   
ERROR    HTTPError: 403 Forbidden from https://test.pypi.org/legacy/                                                                                                                              
         Invalid or non-existent authentication information. See https://test.pypi.org/help/#invalid-auth for more information.                                         
```

This blocked me for a good several hours. A smart friend recommended using [hatch](https://github.com/pypa/hatch) and using a `__token__` and api token auth scheme, which also did not work. ultimately what it was was that i was skimming thru instructions from the default python tutorial and didnt realize that test.pypi.org was a different package site than pypi.org. so just remove it:


```bash
$ python3 -m twine upload dist/*
```

also need to make sure that you dont use hyphens in your package name

```git
- report-env
+ report_env
```

You can see my basic template repo at https://github.com/swyxio/report-env