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| author | Ben McGinnes <[email protected]> | 2018-05-23 04:43:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Ben McGinnes <[email protected]> | 2018-05-23 04:43:06 +0000 |
| commit | 3a9e6a8e088e233097866bb0560a36cfbbc4470e (patch) | |
| tree | 720fc6352caf415c4ad6ad830a660cb75f6f33f3 /lang/python/examples/howto/decrypt-file.py | |
| parent | cpp: Expose sessionKey and symkeyAlgo (diff) | |
| download | gpgme-3a9e6a8e088e233097866bb0560a36cfbbc4470e.tar.gz gpgme-3a9e6a8e088e233097866bb0560a36cfbbc4470e.zip | |
docs and examples: python howto
* Updated the decryption example code in the HOWTO and the
corresponding decrypt-file.py script to gracefully handle a
decryption failure. This error will always be triggered when GPGME
is used to try to decrypt an old, MDC-less encrypted message or
file.
Diffstat (limited to 'lang/python/examples/howto/decrypt-file.py')
| -rwxr-xr-x | lang/python/examples/howto/decrypt-file.py | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lang/python/examples/howto/decrypt-file.py b/lang/python/examples/howto/decrypt-file.py index 60a050bd..b38acc79 100755 --- a/lang/python/examples/howto/decrypt-file.py +++ b/lang/python/examples/howto/decrypt-file.py @@ -38,7 +38,14 @@ else: newfile = input("Enter path and filename of file to save decrypted data to: ") with open(ciphertext, "rb") as cfile: - plaintext, result, verify_result = gpg.Context().decrypt(cfile) + try: + plaintext, result, verify_result = gpg.Context().decrypt(cfile) + except gpg.errors.GPGMEError as e: + plaintext = None + print(e) -with open(newfile, "wb") as nfile: - nfile.write(plaintext) +if plaintext is not None: + with open(newfile, "wb") as nfile: + nfile.write(plaintext) +else: + pass |