Welcome to python-apt’s documentation!

This is the official documentation for version 0.7.91 of the Python bindings for Debian’s famous APT package management.

This documentation has been created by Sphinx, using reStructuredText files written by Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>, and in case of the apt package, from the documentation shipped in the modules.

Contents:

• What’s New In python-apt 0.8
  • Support for Python 3
  • Real classes in apt_pkg
  • Complete rename of functions, methods and attributes
  • Supporting new language features like the with statement
  • Other changes
  • Porting your applications to python-apt 0.8
• apt — Highlevel apt package
  • apt.cache — The Cache class
  • apt.cdrom - Functionality like in apt-cdrom
  • apt.debfile — Classes related to debian package files
  • apt.package — Classes for package handling
  • apt.progress — Classes for progress reporting
  • apt.progress.gtk2 — GTK widgets
  • Classes exported in apt
• apt_pkg — The low-level bindings for apt-pkg
  • Module Initialization
  • Working with the cache
  • PackageFile
  • Package
  • Version
  • Dependency
  • Description
  • MetaIndex
  • PackageIndexFile
  • Records
  • The Acquire interface
  • Hash functions
  • Debian control files
  • Dependencies
  • Configuration
  • Locking
  • Other classes
  • String functions
  • Module Constants
• apt_inst - Working with local Debian packages
  • Checking packages
  • Listing contents
  • Extracting contents
  • Example: Emulating dpkg --extract
  • Example: Emulating dpkg --contents
  • Example: Emulating dpkg --info
• aptsources — Working with sources.list
  • aptsources.distinfo — provide meta information for distro repositories
  • aptsources.distro — Distribution abstraction of the sources.list
  • aptsources.sourceslist — Provide an abstraction of the sources.list
• Contributing to python-apt
  • Available branches
  • C++ Coding style
  • Python Coding Style
  • Submitting your patch
  • Documentation updates
  • Example patch session

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page

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