Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: PyGObject
Version: 3.50.0
Summary: Python bindings for GObject Introspection
Author-Email: James Henstridge <james@daa.com.au>
Maintainer-Email: Christoph Reiter <creiter@src.gnome.org>, Arjan Molenaar <amolenaar@gnome.org>, Dan Yeaw <danyeaw@gnome.org>, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro <icq@gnome.org>
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 (LGPLv2.1)
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License v2 or later (LGPLv2+)
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX
Classifier: Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows
Classifier: Programming Language :: C
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Project-URL: Homepage, https://pygobject.gnome.org
Project-URL: Repository, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pygobject.git
Project-URL: Changelog, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pygobject/-/blob/main/NEWS
Requires-Python: <4.0,>=3.9
Requires-Dist: pycairo>=1.16
Description-Content-Type: text/x-rst

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**PyGObject** is a Python package which provides bindings for `GObject
<https://docs.gtk.org/gobject/>`__ based libraries such as `GTK
<https://www.gtk.org/>`__, `GStreamer <https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/>`__,
`WebKitGTK <https://webkitgtk.org/>`__, `GLib
<https://docs.gtk.org/glib/>`__, `GIO
<https://docs.gtk.org/gio/>`__ and many more.

It supports Linux, Windows, and macOS and works with **Python 3.9+** and
**PyPy3**. PyGObject, including this documentation, is licensed under the
**LGPLv2.1+**.

Homepage
--------

https://pygobject.gnome.org

Installation
------------

The latest version from PyGObject can be installed from `PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/PyGObject/>`__:

    pip install PyGObject

PyGObject is only distributed as source distribution, so you need a C compiler installed on your host.

Please have a look at our `Getting Started <https://pygobject.gnome.org/getting_started.html>`__ documentation
for OS specific installation instructions.

Development
~~~~~~~~~~~

Our website contains instructions on how to `set up a development environment
<https://pygobject.gnome.org/devguide/dev_environ.html>`__.

Default branch renamed to ``main``
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The default development branch of PyGObject has been renamed
to ``main``. To update your local checkout, use::

    git checkout master
    git branch -m master main
    git fetch
    git branch --unset-upstream
    git branch -u origin/main
    git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main