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+		    GPG - GPGME BINDINGS FOR PYTHON
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+Table of Contents
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+1 Mailing List
+2 Bugs
+3 Authors
+4 History
+
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+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.
+
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+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
+══════
+
+  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]