Martin> It's far from obvious. It's called "provider-driven identifier
    Martin> selection". PyPI redirects your browser to Google. Google looks
    Martin> at the Google cookie, and finds your identity; they also see
    Martin> that you have opted to automatically log into PyPI. So without
    Martin> further questions, they redirect you back to PyPI. PyPI finds
    Martin> your account, and displays a logged-in page.

Thanks.  Makes sense now...

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