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

• Install gRPC Python's dependencies

  $ pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Install gRPC Python

  $ pip install src/python/src