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Python bindings for biscuit

This library provides python bindings to the biscuit_auth rust library.

As it is a pre-1.0 version, you can expect some API changes. However, most of the use cases are covered:

  • building a token
  • appending a (first-party) block to a token
  • parsing a token
  • authorizing a token
  • querying an authorizer

Notable missing features are:

  • sealing tokens
  • third-party blocks
  • snapshots

There are no blockers for these features, they just have not been properly exposed yet.

Documentation

Documentation is available at https://python.biscuitsec.org.

Installation

biscuit-python is published on PyPI: biscuit-python:

pip install biscuit-python

Building/Testing

Set up a virtualenv and install the dev dependencies. Plenty of ways to do that... Here's one of them:

$ python -m venv .env
$ source .env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

With that, you should be able to run maturin develop to build and install the extension. You can then import biscuit_auth in a Python shell to play around, or run pytest to run the Python tests.