ANN: A new version (0.4.1) of python-gnupg has been released.

[Vinay Sajip]

A new version of the Python module which wraps GnuPG has been released.

What Changed?
=============
This is an enhancement and bug-fix release, and all users are encouraged to upgrade.
See the project website [1] for more information.

Brief summary:

* Updated message handling logic to no longer raise exceptions when a message isn't
  recognised. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor for the patch.
* Always use always use --fixed-list-mode, --batch and --with-colons. Thanks to Daniel
  Kahn Gillmor for the patch.
* Improved scan_keys() handling on GnuPG >= 2.1. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor for the
  patch.
* Improved test behaviour with GnuPG >= 2.1. Failures when deleting test directory trees
  are now ignored. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor for the patch.
* Added close_file keyword argument to verify_file to allow the file closing to be made
  optional. Current behaviour is maintained - close_file=False can be passed to skip
  closing the file being verified.
* Added the extra_args keyword parameter to allow custom arguments to be passed to the
  gpg executable.
* Instances of the GPG class now have an additional on_data attribute, which defaults to
  None. It can be set to a callable which will be called with a single argument - a binary
  chunk of data received from the gpg executable. The callable can do whatever it likes
  with the chunks passed to it - e.g. write them to a separate stream. The callable should
  not raise any exceptions (unless it wants the current operation to fail).

This release [2] has been signed with my code signing key:

Vinay Sajip (CODE SIGNING KEY) <vina... at yahoo.co.uk>
Fingerprint: CA74 9061 914E AC13 8E66 EADB 9147 B477 339A 9B86

What Does It Do?
================
The gnupg module allows Python programs to make use of the
functionality provided by the Gnu Privacy Guard (abbreviated GPG or
GnuPG). Using this module, Python programs can encrypt and decrypt
data, digitally sign documents and verify digital signatures, manage
(generate, list and delete) encryption keys, using proven Public Key
Infrastructure (PKI) encryption technology based on OpenPGP.

This module is expected to be used with Python versions >= 2.4, as it
makes use of the subprocess module which appeared in that version of
Python. This module is a newer version derived from earlier work by
Andrew Kuchling, Richard Jones and Steve Traugott.

A test suite using unittest is included with the source distribution.

Simple usage:

>>> import gnupg
>>> gpg = gnupg.GPG(gnupghome='/path/to/keyring/directory')
>>> gpg.list_keys()

[{
...
'fingerprint': 'F819EE7705497D73E3CCEE65197D5DAC68F1AAB2',
'keyid': '197D5DAC68F1AAB2',
'length': '1024',
'type': 'pub',
'uids': ['', 'Gary Gross (A test user) <gary.gr... at gamma.com>']},
{
...
'fingerprint': '37F24DD4B918CC264D4F31D60C5FEFA7A921FC4A',
'keyid': '0C5FEFA7A921FC4A',
'length': '1024',
...
'uids': ['', 'Danny Davis (A test user) <danny.da... at delta.com>']}]
>>> encrypted = gpg.encrypt("Hello, world!", ['0C5FEFA7A921FC4A'])
>>> str(encrypted)

'-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----\nVersion: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)\n
\nhQIOA/6NHMDTXUwcEAf
.
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----\n'
>>> decrypted = gpg.decrypt(str(encrypted), passphrase='secret')
>>> str(decrypted)

'Hello, world!'
>>> signed = gpg.sign("Goodbye, world!", passphrase='secret')
>>> verified = gpg.verify(str(signed))
>>> print "Verified" if verified else "Not verified"

'Verified'

As always, your feedback is most welcome (especially bug reports [3],
patches and suggestions for improvement, or any other points via the
mailing list/discussion group [4]).

Please refer to the documentation [5] for more information.

Enjoy!

Cheers

Vinay Sajip
Red Dove Consultants Ltd.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/python-gnupg
[2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-gnupg/0.4.1
[3] https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/python-gnupg/issues
[4] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/python-gnupg
[5] https://gnupg.readthedocs.io/en/latest/