https://pyscard.sourceforge.io/
Copyright 2001-2012 Gemalto
Authors:
- Jean-Daniel Aussel, [email protected]
- Ludovic Rousseau, [email protected]
This file is part of pyscard.
pyscard is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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pyscard is a python module adding smart cards support to python.
It consists of the smartcard.scard module, an extension module wrapping
Windows smart card base components (also known as PCSC) on Windows, and
PCSC lite on GNU/Linux and macOS, and of the smartcard module, a
python framework with objects wrapping PCSC API.
All documentation is provided in the src/smartcard/doc directory of the
source distribution. Examples are provided in the src/smartcard/Examples
directory of the source distribution. The binary distribution does not
include any documentation, tests scripts or examples.
The pyscard library is packaged using the standard setuptools python module.
Use pip:
pip install pyscard
- you will need swig, and a C compiler.
You can install swig using:
- Install the chocolately package manager
- Open a powershell as administrator mode, run
choco install swig
- Then in the same window, install pyscard by
pip install pyscard
- download the source distribution
The source distribution is available pyscard-1.9.<xx>.tar.gz for Windows and GNU/Linux.
- unzip the source distribution, open a console and type the following:
setup.py build_ext install
This will build pyscard and install it in the site-packages directory of
your python distribution, e.g. c:\python312\Lib\site-packages\smartcard.
This install procedure does not install the documentation, examples or test files.
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you will need gcc, swig (https://www.swig.org/), and pcsc-lite (https://pcsclite.apdu.fr/)
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download the source distribution
The source distribution is available as pyscard-1.9.<xx>.tar.gz.
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untar the source distribution
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from a terminal with root privileges, type the following:
sudo python setup.py install
This will build pyscard and install it in the site-packages directory of
your python distribution, e.g.
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/smartcard.
The developer documentation is in the src/smartcard/doc/ directory of the
source distribution.
Examples are located in the src/smartcard/Examples/ directory, and the pyunit
unit tests in the src/smartcard/test/ directory.
To build a binary distribution from the source distribution, you will need a C compiler and swig (same requirements as for installing from the source distribution).
In the root directory of the source distribution, execute the following command in a console:
python -m build
This will build the wheel installer with a name similar to pyscard-2.0.5-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl in the dist/directory.
To build a binary distribution from the source distribution, you will need gcc, swig and pcsc-lite (same requirements as for installing from the source distribution).
In the root directory of the source distribution, execute the following command in a terminal:
python3 -m venv temp
source temp/bin/activate
pip3 install -r dev-requirements.txt
python3 -m build
This will build a wheel installer with a name similar to pyscard-2.0.7-cp310-cp310-linux_x86_64.whl and a source code archive pyscard-2.0.7.tar.gz in the dist/directory.
To build a binary distribution from the source distribution, you will need swig and Xcode (same requirements as for installing from the source distribution).
The steps are then the same as for GNU/Linux.