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decorators-cryptography
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decorators-cryptography is a Python library that provides decorators for encrypting and decrypting passed arguments using the cryptography package.
For Linux, macOS, Windows (WSL):
curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -
For Windows (Powershell):
(Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://install.python-poetry.org -UseBasicParsing).Content | py -
On macOS and Windows, the installation script will prompt you to add the Poetry executable folder to the PATH variable. Do this by running the following command (don't forget to change {USERNAME} to your username):
macOS
export PATH="/Users/{USERNAME}/.local/bin:$PATH"
Windows
$Env:Path += ";C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\Python\Scripts"; setx PATH "$Env:Path"
Check installation:
poetry --version
Installing bash completions (optional):
poetry completions bash >> ~/.bash_completion
🔖 Setting up the Poetry environment for PyCharm
Creating a virtual environment:
poetry env use python3.10
Installing dependencies:
poetry install
Launching the shell and activating the virtual environment (from the project folder):
poetry shell
Checking virtual environment activation:
poetry env list
In order for pre-commit checks to be performed with each commit, you must:
The pre-commit module has already been added to the requirements and should be installed automatically with the virtual environment.
You can check the presence of pre-commit with the command (with the virtual environment activated):
pre-commit --version
# >> pre-commit 2.21.0
If this does not happen, then you need to install pre-commit according to the official instructions:
brew install pre-commit
poetry add pre-commit
pip install pre-commit
Installing hooks:
pre-commit install --all
In the future, when executing the git commit
command, the checks listed in the .pre-commit-config.yaml
file will be performed.
If it is not clear which error is preventing the commit from being executed, you can run the hooks manually with the command:
pre-commit run --all-files
To use the decorators provided by decorators-cryptography, follow the examples below.
from decorators_cryptography import encrypt, decrypt
@encrypt(key="encryption_key")
def sensitive_function(arg1, arg2):
# Your function implementation
pass
@decrypt(key="decryption_key")
def sensitive_function(arg1, arg2):
# Your function implementation
pass
FAQs
Decorators for encrypting/decrypting passed arguments
We found that decorators-cryptography demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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