pem 19.3.0

Easy PEM file parsing in Python.

pem: Easy PEM file parsing

pem is an MIT-licensed Python module for parsing and splitting of PEM files, i.e. Base64 encoded DER keys and certificates.

It runs on Python 2.7, 3.5+, and PyPy, has no dependencies, and does not attempt to interpret the certificate data in any way.

It’s born from the need to load keys, certificates, trust chains, and DH parameters from various certificate deployments: some servers (like Apache) expect them to be a separate file, others (like nginx) expect them concatenated to the server certificate and finally some (like HAProxy) expect key, certificate, and chain to be in one file. With pem, your Python application can cope with all of those scenarios:

>>> import pem
>>> certs = pem.parse_file("chain.pem")
>>> certs
[<Certificate(PEM string with SHA-1 digest '...')>, <Certificate(PEM string with SHA-1 digest '...')>]
>>> str(certs[0])
'-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\n...'

Additionally to the vanilla parsing code, pem also contains helpers for Twisted that save a lot of boilerplate code.

pem’s documentation lives at Read the Docs, the code on GitHub.

Release Information

19.3.0 (2019-10-16)

Backward-incompatible changes:

• Python 3.4 is not supported anymore. It has been unsupported by the Python core team for a while now and its PyPI downloads are negligible.

  It’s very unlikely that pem will break under 3.4 anytime soon, but we don’t test it anymore.

Deprecations:

none

Changes:

• Added support for pem.OpenSSHPrivateKey (OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY). OpenSSH added a new BEGIN label when it switched to a proprietary key encoding. #39

Full changelog.

Credits

pem is written and maintained by Hynek Schlawack.

The development is kindly supported by Variomedia AG.

A full list of contributors can be found on GitHub’s overview.