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# PyXDG
PyXDG is a python library to access freedesktop.org standards. Currently supported are:
* Base Directory Specification Version 0.6
* Menu Specification Version 1.0
* Desktop Entry Specification Version 1.0
* Icon Theme Specification Version 0.8
* Recent File Spec 0.2
* Shared-MIME-Database Specification 0.13
[[Documentation on ReadTheDocs|http://pyxdg.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html]]
## Development
Development takes place in [[a git repository|http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/pyxdg/]], with a [[Github mirror|https://github.com/takluyver/pyxdg]]. Freedesktop.org hosts the [[bug tracker|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?product=PyXDG&component=PyXDG&resolution=---&list_id=97030]].
[](https://travis-ci.org/takluyver/pyxdg)
## Download
* PyXDG 0.27; October 2020
* Menu: Fix compatibility with Python >= 3.8.4
* Menu: Fix several AttributeErrors
* Menu: Fix duplication of menu entries due when Layout is provided
* MenuEditor: Fix fromstring typo
* Certain tests are more independent of external system conditions
* Standardise shebangs to `/usr/bin/env python3`
* PyXDG 0.26; February 2018
* The primary source of release files is now [[PyXDG on PyPI|https://pypi.org/project/pyxdg/#files]], not this page.
* IconTheme: Add support for Scale and ScaledDirectories keys.
* DesktopEntry: New method `findTryExec()`
* Menu: More efficient processing of filter rules by building a Python AST
* Mime: Prefer the first mimetype found for a file extension, instead of the last
* Mime: Allow unknown magic-matching rule formats
* Mime: `GlobDB` has new methods `first_match` and `all_matches` for matching paths
* Mime: New function `get_extensions` to get extensions for a given mime type
* Mime: Fix `MagicDB.match_data` crashing with an unknown 'possible' mimetype
* Mime: Correctly handle `__NOMAGIC__` rule removing previous magic matches
* Menu: XML parsing [[reworked|https://github.com/takluyver/pyxdg/pull/4]]
* BaseDirectory: More secure creation of a fallback runtime directory with `get_runtime_dir(strict=False)`
* Various miscellaneous improvements to testing.
* [[pyxdg-0.25.tar.gz|http://people.freedesktop.org/~takluyver/pyxdg-0.25.tar.gz]] ([[pgp|http://people.freedesktop.org/~takluyver/pyxdg-0.25.tar.gz.asc]]; December 2012)
* Add support for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, Debian bug #656338.
* Allow desktop entry files that are not encoded in UTF-8, Debian bug #693855.
* Mime: Add support for subclasses and aliases.
* [[pyxdg-0.24.tar.gz|http://people.freedesktop.org/~takluyver/pyxdg-0.24.tar.gz]] ([[pgp|http://people.freedesktop.org/~takluyver/pyxdg-0.24.tar.gz.asc]]; October 2012)
* Update allowed DesktopEntry categories following changes to the specification.
* Fix removal of empty submenu, freedesktop bug #54747.
* Documentation is now available on RTD: [[http://pyxdg.readthedocs.org/|http://pyxdg.readthedocs.org/]]
* A few more tests, and some code cleanup.
* Fix failure to parse some menu files when kde-config is missing, freedesktop bug #56426.
* [[pyxdg-0.23.tar.gz|http://people.freedesktop.org/~takluyver/pyxdg-0.23.tar.gz]] ([[pgp|http://people.freedesktop.org/~takluyver/pyxdg-0.23.tar.gz.asc]]; July 2012)
* Fix a test for non-UTF-8 locales.
* [[pyxdg-0.22.tar.gz|http://people.freedesktop.org/~takluyver/pyxdg-0.22.tar.gz]] ([[pgp|http://people.freedesktop.org/~takluyver/pyxdg-0.22.tar.gz.asc]]; July 2012)
* Better unicode handling in several modules.
* Fix for sorting non-ASCII menu entries, [[freedesktop bug #52492|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52492]].
* More tests.
* [[pyxdg-0.21.tar.gz|http://people.freedesktop.org/~takluyver/pyxdg-0.21.tar.gz]] ([[pgp|http://people.freedesktop.org/~takluyver/pyxdg-0.21.tar.gz.asc]]; July 2012)
* Tests can now be run conveniently using nosetests, and cover more of the code.
* BaseDirectory: New `save_cache_path()` function, [[freedesktop bug #26458|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26458]].
* Config: Default icon theme is 'hicolor', not 'highcolor', [[freedesktop bug #29294|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29294]].
* Menu: Obsolete `Rule.compile()` method removed.
* DesktopEntry: Corrected spelling of `checkCategories()` method, [[freedesktop bug #24974|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24974]].
* DesktopEntry: Consider `Actions` and `Keywords` keys standard.
* DesktopEntry: Accept non-ASCII Keywords.
* DesktopEntry: Update list of environments valid for `OnlyShowIn`.
* Mime: Fix `get_type_by_contents()` in Python 3.
* RecentFiles: Minor bug fixes.
* [[pyxdg-0.20.tar.gz|http://people.freedesktop.org/~takluyver/pyxdg-0.20.tar.gz]] (June 2012)
* Compatible with Python 3; requires Python 2.6 or later
* Clean up accidental GPL license notice in Menu.py
* Add test scripts for xdg.Mime, xdg.Locale and xdg.RecentFiles
* Fixes for icon theme validation
* Fix exception in xdg.Mime
* Replace invalid string exceptions
* Fall back to default base directories if $XDG* environment variables are set but empty.
* Remove use of deprecated os.popen3 in Menu.py
* Correct URLs in README
* [[pyxdg-0.19.tar.gz|http://www.freedesktop.org/~lanius/pyxdg-0.19.tar.gz]]
* `IniFile.py`: add support for trusted desktop files (thanks to karl mikaelsson)
* `DesktopEntry.py`: Support spec version 1.0, Debian bug #563660
* `MimeType.py`: Fix parsing of in memory data, Debian bug #563718
* `DesktopEntry.py`: Fix constructor, Debian bug #551297, #562951, #562952
* [[pyxdg-0.18.tar.gz|http://www.freedesktop.org/~lanius/pyxdg-0.18.tar.gz]]
* `DesktopEntry.py`: Add getMimeTypes() method, correctly returning strings
* `DesktopEntry.py`: Deprecated getMimeType() returning list of regex (AdamB)
* `Menu.py`: Add support for XDG_MENU_PREFIX (Piotr Lewandowski)
* `Mime.py`: Add get_type_by_contents() (Tony Houghton)
* [[pyxdg-0.17.tar.gz|http://www.freedesktop.org/~lanius/pyxdg-0.17.tar.gz]]
* Bugfixes around
* [[pyxdg-0.16.tar.gz|http://www.freedesktop.org/~lanius/pyxdg-0.16.tar.gz]]
* Bugfixes around
* [[pyxdg-0.15.tar.gz|http://www.freedesktop.org/~lanius/pyxdg-0.15.tar.gz]]
* `Menu.py`: Bugfixes, support for `TryExec`
* `MenuEditor.py`: Bugfixes, pretty output for applications.menu
* `IconTheme.py`: Performance improvements, Bugfixes
* [[pyxdg-0.14.tar.gz|http://www.freedesktop.org/~lanius/pyxdg-0.14.tar.gz]]
* `Menu.py`, `MenuEditor.py`: Bugfixes
* [[pyxdg-0.13.tar.gz|http://www.freedesktop.org/~lanius/pyxdg-0.13.tar.gz]]
* `Menu.py`, `MenuEditor.py`: Bugfixes...
* `Config.py`: Add root_mode
* [[pyxdg-0.12.tar.gz|http://www.freedesktop.org/~lanius/pyxdg-0.12.tar.gz]]
* `MenuEditor.py`: New in this release, use to edit Menus
* `Menu.py`, `IniFile.py`, `DesktopEntry.py`: Lot of bugfixing...
* `BaseDirectory.py`: Add xdg_cache_home
* `IconTheme.py`, `Config.py`: More caching stuff, make cachetime configurable
* thx to Travis Watkins <[[alleykat@gmail.com|mailto:alleykat@gmail.com]]> and Matt Kynaston <[[mattkyn@gmail.com|mailto:mattkyn@gmail.com]]> for their help
* [[pyxdg-0.11.tar.gz|http://www.freedesktop.org/~lanius/pyxdg-0.11.tar.gz]]
* `Config.py`: Module to configure Basic Settings, currently available:
* Locale, `IconTheme`, `IconSize`, `WindowManager`
* `Locale.py`: Internal Module to support Locales
* `Mime.py`: Implementation of the Mime Specification
* `Menu.py`: Now supports `LegacyDirs`
* `RecentFiles.py`:Implementation of the Recent Files Specification
* A lot of bugfixes, thx to Travis Watkins <[[alleykat@gmail.com|mailto:alleykat@gmail.com]]>
* [[pyxdg-0.10.tar.gz|http://www.freedesktop.org/~lanius/pyxdg-0.10.tar.gz]]
* various bugfixes
* validate against menu-spec-1.0.draft-1
* [[pyxdg-0.9.tar.gz|http://www.freedesktop.org/~lanius/pyxdg-0.9.tar.gz]]
* various bugfixes
* various performance improvements
* validate against menu-spec-0.91
* thx to Matt Kynaston <[[mattkyn@gmail.com|mailto:mattkyn@gmail.com]]> for some suggestions
* [[pyxdg-0.8.tar.gz|http://www.freedesktop.org/~lanius/pyxdg-0.8.tar.gz]]
* `xdg/IconTheme.py` (getIconPath): The "hicolor" theme has to be used as the fallback.
* `xdg/IniFile.py` (IniFile.getList): Fixed bug in splitting up strings.
* Don't read .desktop-* files, only .desktop
* Add . to the literal `FileExtensions` so that the checks work.
* thx to
* Martin Grimme ([[martin@pycage.de|mailto:martin@pycage.de]])
* Ross Burton ([[ross@burtonini.com|mailto:ross@burtonini.com]])
* pyxdg-0.7.tar.gz
* add 'import codecs' to `IniFile`, needed by write support
* Fix parsing of lists with only one entry
* pyxdg-0.6.tar.gz
* Performance Improvements
* pyxdg-0.5.tar.gz
* License change to LGPL
* Support for write operations in `IniFile`
* Support for menu-spec-0.7
* Validates `OnlyShowIn` and Categories
* Performance improvements (e.g. 5 times faster in menu parsing)
* A lot of bugfixes (e.g. `IconTheme` parsing)
* Python 2.3 support
* pyxdg-0.4.tar.gz
* Bugfix release
* pyxdg-0.3.tar.gz
* Basedir Spec updated to version 0.6
* First part of separating Desktop Entry backend in `IniFile`
* added getPath(...) function to `Menu.py`
* Complete Icon Theme Spec implementation, including cache and validation
* pyxdg-0.2.tar.gz
* Rewrite of Menu Spec code
* Use Basedir Spec code from ROX
* pyxdg-0.1.tar.gz
* Initial release.
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