Installation

Install psec using the pip module of Python:

$ python -V
Python 3.12.6
$ python -m pip install python_secrets

For best results, use a Python virtualenv to avoid problems due to the system Python not conforming to the version dependency. User’s with Mac OS X systems and Windows systems may want to use miniconda to standardize management of your virtual environments across those two operating systems as well as Linux.

If you are not doing a lot of Python development and just want to use psec for managing secrets in your open source projects (or as part of an open source project that depends on psec for configuration files that include secrets) there are some simpler options that transparently handle the virtual environment creation for you. The pipx program is easy to install as a PyPI package, or with Homebrew on the Mac (see https://pipxproject.github.io/pipx/ for installation instructions).