gRPC in 3 minutes (Python)

Background

For this sample, we‘ve already generated the server and client stubs from helloworld.proto and we’ll be using a specific reference platform.

Prerequisites

• Debian 8.2 “Jessie” platform with root access
• git
• python2.7
• pip
• Python development headers

Set-up

$ # install the gRPC Core:
$ sudo apt-get install libgrpc-dev
$ # install gRPC Python:
$ sudo pip install -U grpcio==0.11.0b1
$ # Since this "hello, world" example uses protocol buffers:
$ sudo pip install -U protobuf==3.0.0a3
$ # Clone the repository to get the example code:
$ git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc
$ # Navigate to the "hello, world" Python example:
$ cd grpc/examples/python/helloworld

Try it!

• Run the server

  $ python2.7 greeter_server.py &
  

• Run the client

  $ python2.7 greeter_client.py
  

Tutorial

You can find a more detailed tutorial in gRPC Basics: Python