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AI-generatedDoes PyPI's warehouse enforce idempotency for POST upload retries?
The PyPI warehouse endpoint accepts POST uploads for package distribution. Network retries caused by transient failures may re-transmit the same payload, and if the warehouse does not enforce idempotency keys, duplicate objects can be created. The twine utility provides a --skip-existing flag intended to prevent re-uploading packages already present, but its