Simple python3 bindings to libxrcypt[1].

You can build and install pyxcrypt as a wheel package using pip[2] or by using meson. For both cases you will need theese build requirements:

1. C-compiler (gcc, for example)
2. libxcrypt
3. Python3 standart library

If you build pyxcrypt using meson you will also need meson[3]. And if you want to use pip, you will need pip[2]:).

ATTENTION MacOS users have to specify path to libxcrypt since they install it using brew:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/homebrew/opt/libxcrypt/lib/pkgconfig

The simpliest way is to install pyxcrypt from pypi[4]:

python3 -m venv /tmp/env
source /tmp/env/bin/activate
pip3 install pyxcrypt

But if you want to test development version of pyxcrypt, you can build it from source using pip:

python3 -m venv /tmp/env
source /tmp/env/bin/activate
git -C clone /tmp https://github.com/altlinux/pyxcrypt.git
pip install /tmp/pyxcrypt

git -C /tmp clone https://github.com/altlinux/pyxcrypt.git
cd /tmp/pyxcrypt && meson BUILD_DIR
meson compile -C BUILD_DIR

After these steps you can just install it using:

meson install -C BUILD_DIR

But it is better to specify DESTDIR and than set PYTHONPATH so you can install it as user.

Also you can run tests by calling meson:

meson BUILD_DIR
meson test -C BUILD_DIR

Or after install it using pip:

python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v

Since pyxcrypt just uses libxcrypt[1] API all main pyxcrypt functions are equal to libxcrypt. For API doc import pyxcrypt from python3 and run help(pyxcrypt) or visit this link[5]

• [1] - https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt
• [2] - https://pypi.org/project/pip/
• [3] - https://mesonbuild.com/
• [4] - https://pypi.org/
• [5] - https://altlinux.github.io/pyxcrypt