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.

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

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.