grpc/src/python

gRPC Python

The Python facility of gRPC.

Status

Usable with limitations, Pre-Alpha

Prerequisites

Python 2.7, virtualenv, pip, libprotobuf-dev, and libprotoc-dev.

Building from source

• Build the gRPC core from the root of the gRPC git repo

  $ make shared_c static_c
  

• Use build_python.sh to build the Python code and install it into a virtual environment

  $ tools/run_tests/build_python.sh
  

Testing

• Use run_python.sh to run gRPC as it was installed into the virtual environment

  $ tools/run_tests/run_python.sh
  

Installing

• Install the gRPC core

  • Debian package

    $ wget https://github.com/grpc/grpc/releases/download/release-0_5_0/libgrpc_0.5.0_amd64.deb
    $ wget https://github.com/grpc/grpc/releases/download/release-0_5_0/libgrpc-dev_0.5.0_amd64.deb
    $ sudo dpkg -i libgrpc_0.5.0_amd64.deb libgrpc-dev_0.5.0_amd64.deb
    

  • From source

• Install gRPC Python's dependencies

  $ pip install -r src/python/requirements.txt
  

• Install gRPC Python

  $ pip install src/python/src
  

Packaging to PyPI

• Install packaging dependencies

  $ pip install setuptools twine
  

• Push to PyPI

  $ ../../tools/distrib/python/submit.py