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Library for getting passwords from PostgreSQL password files

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pgpasslib is a library for retrieving passwords from a PostgreSQL password file, either from a location specified in the PGPASSFILE environment variable or in the .pgpass file in the current user’s home directory.

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Installation

pgpasslib may be installed via the Python package index with the tool of your choice. I prefer pip:

pip install pgpasslib

Documentation

https://pgpasslib.readthedocs.org

Requirements

There are no requirements outside of the Python standard library.

Example

The following example will attempt to get the password for PostgreSQL running on localhost:5432 to the postgres database as the postgres user.

import pgpasslib

password = pgpasslib.getpass('localhost', 5432, 'postgres', 'postgres')
if not password:
    raise ValueError('Did not find a password in the .pgpass file')

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Available at https://pgpasslib.readthedocs.org

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