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Table of Contents
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1 Mailing List
2 Bugs
3 Authors
4 History


The "gpg" module is a python interface to the GPGME library:
[https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/]

"gpg" offers two interfaces, one is a high-level, curated, and idiomatic
interface that is implemented as a shim on top of the low-level
interface automatically created using SWIG.

This way we make simple things easy, while still providing the entire
functionality of the underlying library.


1 Mailing List
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  For general discussion and help see the gnupg-users mailing list:
  [https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users]

  For development see the gnupg-devel mailing list:
  [https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-devel]


2 Bugs
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  Please report bugs using our bug tracker using the category 'gpgme',
  and topic 'python': [https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/]


3 Authors
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  PyME was created by John Goerzen, and maintained, developed, and
  cherished by Igor Belyi, Martin Albrecht, Ben McGinnes, and everyone
  who contributed to it in any way.

  In 2016 we merged a port of PyME to into the GPGME repository, and
  development will continue there.  Please see the VCS history for the
  list of contributors, and if you do find bugs, or want to contribute,
  please get in touch and help maintain the python gpg bindings.

  Please see the section 'History' further down this document for
  references to previous versions.


4 History
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  • The python bindings were renamed from PyME to "gpg" in 2016.

  • The bindings have been merged into the GPGME repository in 2016.

  • The latest version of PyME for Python 3.2 and above (as of May,
    2015) is v0.9.1.  [https://git.gnupg.org/gpgme.git/lang/py3-pyme]

  • The latest version of PyME for Python 2.6 and 2.7 (as of this
    writing) is v0.9.0.  [https://bitbucket.org/malb/pyme]

  • A previous version of PyME v0.8.0 can be found on sourceforge:
    [http://pyme.sourceforge.net/]

  • A previous version of PyME v0.5.1 which works with GPGME v0.3.15 can
    be found on John Goerzen's PyME page: [http://quux.org/devel/pyme/]
    [http://www.complete.org/JohnGoerzen]
