Finding Return Code From GPG

Dennis Benzinger Dennis.Benzinger at gmx.net
Tue Jul 4 13:00:23 EDT 2006


Nomen Nescio wrote:
> I'm running gpg in python to verify a signature. I can see that it is
> working, because gpg is displaying the results.
> 
> But I need a way to let the python script know this. According to the gpg
> manual there is a return code from gpg of 0 if the verify is good and 1 if
> it is bad.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how I can get the python script to 'see' this return
> code?
> 

How do you run GPG? I suggest using the subprocess module 
<http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html>. If you just need 
something simple then you can use its call function 
<http://docs.python.org/lib/node236.html>.


Bye,
Dennis



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