This repository is a collection of Python library code for building Python applications. The code is collected from Google's own Python code base, and has been extensively tested and used in production.
To install the package, simply run:
pip install absl-py
Or install from source:
pip install .
To run Abseil tests, you can clone the git repo and run bazel:
git clone https://github.com/abseil/abseil-py.git
cd abseil-py
bazel test absl/...
Please also validate the type annotations against the latest mypy:
pip install mypy
mypy absl
Please refer to smoke_tests/sample_app.py as an example to get started.
See the Abseil Python Developer Guide.
The current repository includes an initial set of libraries for early adoption. More components and interoperability with Abseil C++ Common Libraries will come in future releases.
The Abseil Python library is licensed under the terms of the Apache license. See LICENSE for more information.
FAQs
Abseil Python Common Libraries, see https://github.com/abseil/abseil-py.
We found that absl-py demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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