smartcard

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Smartcard utility module.

The smartcard utility module provides classes and functions to access smartcards and readers.

__author__ = "gemalto http://www.gemalto.com"

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Module	`AbstractCardRequest`	AbstractCardRequest class.
Module	`ATR`	ATR class managing some of the Answer To Reset content.
Module	`Card`	Card class.
Module	`CardConnection`	The CardConnection abstract class manages connections with a card and apdu transmission.
Module	`CardConnectionDecorator`	The CardConnectionDecorator is a Decorator around the CardConnection abstract class, and allows dynamic addition of features to the CardConnection, e.g. implementing a secure channel..
Module	`CardConnectionEvent`	The CardConnectionEvent is sent to CardConnectionObserver objects when a CardConnection event occurs.
Module	`CardConnectionObserver`	CardConnectionObserver interface.
Module	`CardMonitoring`	Smart card insertion/removal monitoring classes.
Module	`CardNames`	Card Names class
Module	`CardRequest`	Smartcard CardRequest.
Module	`CardService`	Card service abstract class.
Module	`CardType`	Abstract CarType.
Module	`ClassLoader`	ClassLoader allows you to load modules from packages without hard-coding their class names in code; instead, they might be specified in a configuration file, as command-line parameters, or within an interface.
Module	`Exceptions`	Smartcard module exceptions.
Module	`ExclusiveConnectCardConnection`	CardConnectionDecorator that provides exclusive use of a card.
Module	`ExclusiveTransmitCardConnection`	Sample CardConnectionDecorator that provides exclusive transmit()
Module	`guid`	smartcard.guid
Module	`Observer`	from Thinking in Python, Bruce Eckel http://python-3-patterns-idioms-test.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Observer.html
Module	`PassThruCardService`	Card service abstract class.
Package	`pcsc`	No package docstring; 7/7 modules documented
Package	`pyro`	pyro (remote python) utility module.
Package	`reader`	No package docstring; 3/3 modules documented
Module	`ReaderMonitoring`	Smart card reader monitoring classes.
Package	`scard`	No package docstring; 1/1 module documented
Package	`sw`	smartcard.sw module for status word error checking.
Module	`Synchronization`	from Thinking in Python, Bruce Eckel http://python-3-patterns-idioms-test.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Observer.html
Module	`System`	Smartcard system utility functions and classes.
Module	`ulist`	ulist is a subclass of list where items cannot appear twice in the list.
Package	`util`	smartcard.util package
Package	`wx`	wxpython smartcard utility module.

From __init__.py:

Class	`Session`	The Session object enables programmers to transmit APDU to smartcards.
Function	`listReaders`	Returns the list of smartcard readers.

def listReaders(): ¶

Returns the list of smartcard readers.

Deprecated - Use smartcard.System.readers() instead.