Note: This is a fork of the original project hosted on launchpad. 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:

• Memory management is not exposed to the user

• Functions like gpgme_get_foo()/gpgme_set_foo() are converted to attribute access on gpgme.Context objects.

• 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.

• Non-zero gpgme_error_t return values are converted to gpgme.error exceptions.

• 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.

• Function pairs like gpgme_op_import()/gpgme_op_import_result() are combined into single method calls.

• 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.