This module offers an abstraction of a credential, i.e. something that can be used to authenticate. It allows the creation and manipulation of credentials. In particular, it defines a standard string representation (so that credentials can be given to external programs as command line options), a standard structured representation (so that credentials can be stored in structured configuration files or using JSON) and "preparators" that can transform credentials into ready-to-use data for well known targets.
An Perl implementation of the same credential abstraction is available in CPAN:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Authen-Credential/
To install this module, run the following command:
python setup.py install
To test this module, run the following command:
python setup.py test
After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the standard python help function command or at the following url:
https://authcredential.readthedocs.org/
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