# Copyright (C) 2016 g10 Code GmbH # Copyright (C) 2004 Igor Belyi # Copyright (C) 2002 John Goerzen # # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either # version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA """gpg: GnuPG Interface for Python (GPGME bindings) Welcome to gpg, the GnuPG Interface for Python. The latest release of this package may be obtained from https://www.gnupg.org FEATURES -------- * Feature-rich, full implementation of the GPGME library. Supports all GPGME features. Callback functions may be written in pure Python. Exceptions raised in callbacks are properly propagated. * Ability to sign, encrypt, decrypt, and verify data. * Ability to list keys, export and import keys, and manage the keyring. * Fully object-oriented with convenient classes and modules. QUICK EXAMPLE ------------- >>> import gpg >>> with gpg.Context() as c: >>> with gpg.Context() as c: ... cipher, _, _ = c.encrypt("Hello world :)".encode(), ... passphrase="abc") ... c.decrypt(cipher, passphrase="abc") ... (b'Hello world :)', , ) GENERAL OVERVIEW ---------------- For those of you familiar with GPGME, you will be right at home here. The python gpg module is, for the most part, a direct interface to the C GPGME library. However, it is re-packaged in a more Pythonic way -- object-oriented with classes and modules. Take a look at the classes defined here -- they correspond directly to certain object types in GPGME for C. For instance, the following C code: gpgme_ctx_t context; gpgme_new(&context); ... gpgme_op_encrypt(context, recp, 1, plain, cipher); Translates into the following Python code: context = core.Context() ... context.op_encrypt(recp, 1, plain, cipher) The Python module automatically does error-checking and raises Python exception gpg.errors.GPGMEError when GPGME signals an error. getcode() and getsource() of this exception return code and source of the error. IMPORTANT NOTE -------------- This documentation only covers a small subset of available GPGME functions and methods. Please consult the documentation for the C library for comprehensive coverage. This library uses Python's reflection to automatically detect the methods that are available for each class, and as such, most of those methods do not appear explicitly anywhere. You can use dir() python built-in command on an object to see what methods and fields it has but their meaning can often only be found in the GPGME documentation. HIGHER LEVEL PYTHONIC LAYER --------------------------- A more pythonic or intuitive layer is being added above the automatically generated lower level bindings. This is the recommended way to access the module as if it is ever necessary to modify the underlying GPGME API, the higher level methods will remain the same. The quick example above is an example of this higher layer in action, whereas the second example demonstrating the mapping to GPGME itself is the lower layer. The second example in the higher layer would be more like the encrypt line in the quick example. FOR MORE INFORMATION -------------------- GnuPG homepage: https://www.gnupg.org/ GPGME documentation: https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gpgme/ GPGME Python HOWTO: http://files.au.adversary.org/crypto/gpgme-python-howto-split/index.html To view this documentation, run help(gpg) in Python or one of the following commands outside of Python: pydoc gpg pydoc3 gpg python -m pydoc gpg python3 -m pydoc gpg """ from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals from . import core from . import errors from . import constants from . import util from . import callbacks from . import version from .core import Context from .core import Data del absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals # Interface hygiene. # Drop the low-level gpgme that creeps in for some reason. gpgme = None del gpgme # This is a white-list of symbols. Any other will alert pyflakes. _ = [Context, Data, core, errors, constants, util, callbacks, version] del _ __all__ = [ "Context", "Data", "core", "errors", "constants", "util", "callbacks", "version" ]