Note: This is a fork of the original project hosted on launchpad: https://launchpad.net/pygpgme
The goal here is mainly to add docstrings to methods and generate some actual documentation of the Python library (w/o making users guess arguments by reading documentation of the C library..)
http://pygpgme.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
A Python binding for the gpgme library, used to drive the gpg command line program.
More information about gpgme can be found here: http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/index.html
This binding stays fairly close to the C API with the following exceptions:
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Memory management is not exposed to the user
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Functions like gpgme_get_foo()/gpgme_set_foo() are converted to attribute access on gpgme.Context objects.
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Functions that take gpgme_data_t arguments take arbitrary Python file-like objects. The read(), write(), seek() and tell() methods may be used on the object.
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Non-zero gpgme_error_t return values are converted to gpgme.error exceptions.
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Only the synchronous versions of functions have been wrapped. However, the Python global interpreter lock is dropped, so should play nicely in multi-threaded Python programs.
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Function pairs like gpgme_op_import()/gpgme_op_import_result() are combined into single method calls.
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The Python version of gpgme_op_keylist() returns an iterator over the matched keys, rather than requiring the user to use a special iteration function.
This library is licensed under the LGPL, the same license as the gpgme library.