gRPC Python

Package for gRPC Python.

Installation

gRPC Python is available for Linux and Mac OS X running Python 2.7.

From PyPI

If you are installing locally...

$ pip install grpcio

Else system wide (on Ubuntu)...

$ sudo pip install grpcio

From Source

Building from source requires that you have the Python headers (usually a package named python-dev).

$ export REPO_ROOT=grpc
$ git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc.git $REPO_ROOT
$ cd $REPO_ROOT
$ pip install .

Note that $REPO_ROOT can be assigned to whatever directory name floats your fancy.