Abseil Python Common Libraries

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.

Features

• Simple application startup
• Distributed commandline flags system
• Custom logging module with additional features
• Testing utilities

Getting Started

Installation

To install the package, simply run:

pip install absl-py

Or install from source:

python setup.py install

Running Tests

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

Example Code

Please refer to
smoke_tests/sample_app.py
as an example to get started.

Documentation

See the Abseil Python Developer Guide.

Future Releases

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.

License

The Abseil Python library is licensed under the terms of the Apache
license. See LICENSE for more information.