Welcome to Pyautoupdate’s documentation!

Pyautoupdate is an API library that provides autoupdate functionality for Python programmers.

Pyautoupdate allows end users to easily update their software when the developers release a new version. Developers only need to upload the new version of the application to their server when it is ready. Pyautoupdate provides the functionality to check for updates and automatically download and apply them.

Advantages

• Pyautoupdate secures its downloads through HTTPS.
• Updates can be performed either upon prompting or automatically in the background.
• Pyautoupdate is written in pure Python. No C compiler is necessary for installation, simplifying installation for Windows.
• Python 2 and 3 are both supported
• Pyautoupdate also works with pypy and pypy3

Example code using Pyautoupdate can be found in Quickstart.

Pyautoupdate is released under the LGPL 2.1.

Contents:

• Quickstart
  • Installing Dependencies
  • Distributing your Application
  • Pushing Updates to a Server
• Pyautoupdate API
  • Launcher
  • Exceptions
• Project Structure
  • Overall Structure
  • Special Files
• Internal Update Procedure
  • Checking for Updates
  • Retrieving New Versions
  • Applying Updates
• Contributing
  • Environment Setup
  • Filing an Issue
  • Pull Requests

This documentation was built from commit 1.0.0.post1+e0ab5ba on Mar 06, 2019.

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page