The PyME package maintained by Martin Albrecht

This package is the origin of these bindings, though they are somewhat different now. For details of when and how the PyME package was folded back into GPGME itself see the Short History document¹ in the Python bindings docs/ directory.²

The PyME package was first released in 2002 and was also the first attempt to implement a low level binding to GPGME. In doing so it provided access to considerably more functionality than either the python-gnupg or gnupg packages.

The PyME package is only available for Python 2.6 and 2.7.

Porting the PyME package to Python 3.4 in 2015 is what resulted in it being folded into the GPGME project and the current bindings are the end result of that effort.

The PyME package is available under the same dual licensing as GPGME itself: the GNU General Public License version 2.0 (or any later version) and the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (or any later version).