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argus-redact

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A Python library for local PII redaction that encrypts personally identifiable information in text while preserving contextual meaning. The current version is 0.6.5, updated as of late 2024. Release cadence is irregular, with occasional dependency updates.

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pip install argus-redact

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INSTALL

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SIG · ARGUS-REDACT

argus-redact

datapythonv0.6.5

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Code

Verified usage

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RedactReport

✓ from argus_redact import RedactReport

✗ from argus_redact import Redactor

assess_risk

✓ from argus_redact import assess_risk

redact

✓ from argus_redact import redact

Create a Redactor instance with an encryption key, then call .redact() on text to replace PII with placeholders.

import os from argus_redact import Redactor # Initialize redactor with an encryption key redactor = Redactor(key=os.environ.get('ARGUS_KEY', 'my-secret-key-32chars')) # Redact PII in text text = "My email is john.doe@example.com and phone is 555-1234." redacted = redactor.redact(text) print(redacted) # Example output: "My email is <EMAIL> and phone is <PHONE>."

Debug

Known issues

breakingIn v0.6.0, the default encryption algorithm changed from AES-128 to AES-256. Redacted data from earlier versions cannot be decrypted using the new default.

fix

Set the encryption algorithm explicitly when initializing: Redactor(algorithm='AES-128') to maintain backward compatibility.

affects: >=0.6.0

gotchaThe Redactor key must be exactly 32 bytes for AES-256 (or 16 bytes for AES-128). Passing a string of incorrect length raises a cryptic cryptography error.

fix

Ensure the key is exactly 32 bytes for default AES-256. Use key.encode('utf-8') or generate a proper key.

affects: all

deprecatedThe method `redact_pii` is deprecated since v0.5.0. Use `redact` instead.

fix

Replace all calls to `redact_pii` with `redact`.

affects: <0.5.0

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Version history

0.6.5latest on PyPI · released May 6, 2026

Audit

Dependencies

cryptographyrequiredEncryption primitives for PII redaction

spacyrequiredNamed entity recognition for PII detection

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Resources

githubhttps://github.com/wan9yu/argus-redact ↗

packagehttps://pypi.org/project/argus-redact/ ↗