python-gnupg/README.md

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python-gnupg

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Fork of python-gnupg-0.3.2, patched to remove Popen([...], shell=True).

Installation

From this git repository

To install this package from this git repository, do:

git clone https://github.com/isislovecruft/python-gnupg.git
cd python-gnupg
make install
make test

Optionally to build the documentation after installation, do:

make docs

To get started using python-gnupg's API, see the online documentation, and import the module like so:

>>> import gnupg

The primary interface class you'll likely want to interact with is gnupg.GPG:

>>> gpg = gnupg.GPG(gpgbinary='/usr/bin/gpg',
...     gpghome='./keys',
...     pubring='pubring.gpg',
...     secring='secring.gpg')
>>> batch_key_input = gpg.gen_key_input()
>>> print batch_key_input
Key-Type: RSA
Name-Email: isis@wintermute
Name-Comment: Generated by gnupg.py
Key-Length: 4096
Name-Real: Autogenerated Key
%pubring /home/isis/code/python-gnupg/keys/pubring.gpg
%secring /home/isis/code/python-gnupg/keys/secring.gpg
%commit

>>> key = gpg.gen_key(batch_key_input)
>>> print key.fingerprint
245D8FA30F543B742053949F553C0E154F2E7A98

From PyPI

Hold your horses, boy. I haven't finished development, so the packages on PyPI are still the old versions belonging to the other authors.

Bug Reports & Feature Requests

Our bugtracker is here.

Please use that for bug reports and feature requests instead of github's tracker. We're using github for code commenting and review between collaborators.