The plugins target calibre 5/6 (Python 3) and the Poetry environment
pins Python >=3.8, so the Python 2 fallbacks are dead code. This removes
them throughout both plugins (behaviour on Python 3 is unchanged):
- Drop all `from __future__` imports.
- Collapse `if sys.version_info[0] == 2: ... else: ...` blocks to their
Python 3 branch (ineptpdf, mobidedrm, kindlekey, kgenpids, alfcrypto,
erdr2pml, ineptepub, obok, and the various unpad() helpers, etc.).
- Replace `_winreg` import fallbacks with plain `import winreg`, and
delete the py2-only adobekey_winreg_unicode module (now unreferenced).
- Drop py2 name shims: `unicode`/`unichr`, `.iteritems()`,
`from StringIO import StringIO`, `htmlentitydefs` fallback, and the
Windows CommandLineToArgvW dance in unicode_argv (py3 sys.argv is
already Unicode on every platform).
- Remove the "Calibre < 5" (py2) bugfix block from the compat header.
Verified: every .py file in both plugins still byte-compiles.
Scope: the maintained DeDRM_plugin and Obok_plugin only. The archival
standalone scripts under Other_Tools/ are left as historical snapshots.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The old AlfCrypto DLL, SO and DYLIB files are ancient,
I don't have the systems to recompile them all, they
cause issues on ARM Macs, and I doubt with all the Python
improvements over the last years that they have a significant
performance advantage. And even if that's the case, nobody is
importing hundreds of DRM books at the same time so it shouldn't
hurt if some decryptions might take a bit longer.
Now the plugin ZIP file (DeDRM_plugin.zip) can be run with a normal
Python interpreter as if it were a Python file (try
`python3 DeDRM_plugin.zip --help`). This way I can begin building a
standalone version (that can run without Calibre) without having to
duplicate a ton of code.
- Support "Standard" and "Adobe.APS" encryptions
- Support decrypting with owner password instead of user password
- New function to return encryption filter name
- Support for V=5, R=5 and R=6 PDF files
- Support for AES256-encrypted PDF files
- Disable broken cross-reference streams in output
There were a couple specific DRM removal plugins before the DeDRM plugin
was created. These are obsolete since a long time, there's no need to
still have the code to import their config.
If people are still using these ancient plugins, they'll have to update
to an older version of DeDRM first, and then update to the current one.
JMR-devandClaude Opus 4.8