27 September 2009

I have been introducing the Python Keyring library in this previous post. At that time I was looking for a sponsor and thanks to Piotr O arowski, python-keyring is now available in Sid. What for ?

• You can access the keyring you use on your system (Gnome-keyring, KWallet) to store your app s passwords.
• It s a unified access to keyrings that the Python Keyring library provides, meaning you can easely write your own backend for your keyring software.
• You can create your own keyring, crypted on a file, still with the same library.
• Keyrings are cool and this library provides a great way to play with them, from your Python applications.
• When mature, the Keyring library will be integrated in the official Python module getpass, which means you re not learning yet-another-soon-unmaintained library.

How ? The source package provides three binary packages :

• python-keyring : the Keyring library without the support of both Gnome-keyring and KWallet.
• python-keyring-gnome : the support for Gnome-keyring.
• python-keyring-kwallet : the support for KWallet.

If you use passwords in your Python apps, it s worth to give python-keyring a try.