pygpgme 0.3

This week I put out a new release of pygpgme: a Python extension that lets you perform various tasks with OpenPGP keys via the GPGME library.  The new release is available from both Launchpad and PyPI.

There aren’t any major new extensions to the API, but this is the first release to support Python 3 (Python 2.x is still supported though).  The main hurdle was ensuring that the module correctly handled text vs. binary data.  The split I ended up on was to treat most things as text (including textual representations of binary data such as key IDs and fingerprints), and treat the data being passed into or returned from the encryption, decryption, signing and verification commands as binary data.  I haven’t done a huge amount with the Python 3 version of the module yet, so I’d appreciate bug reports if you find issues.

So now you’ve got one less reason not to try Python 3 if you were previously using pygpgme in your project.

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