Messaging and Real-time Communication SDK for Python
Estimated reading time: 1 minutemesibo Python API is an open-source real-time communication library. The entire source code for the python package can be found at our GitHub repo mesibo Python API
Supported Platforms
- CentOS / RedHat 7.x or above
- Debian / Ubuntu
- Mac OS - both X86_64 and Arm64 (M1) versions
- Raspberry Pi 3 and 4
Requirements
The only prerequisite for installing mesibo is Python. You can then use pip to install mesibo or you can download source code and build it.
mesibo supports both Python3 and Python2. Note that, Python2 is deprecated and hence you should use Python3 mesibo APIs.
- Python 3.x (3.4.x or newer preferred)
- or Python >= 2.7 (deprecated)
Installing mesibo Python package using pip
To install the mesibo python library use pip
or pip3
$ sudo python -m pip3 install mesibo
or
$ sudo python -m pip install mesibo
To upgrade,
$ sudo python -m pip3 install mesibo -U
Installing mesibo Python package from source
Alternatively, you can build and install the package by downloading the source code from the GitHub repo.
Download the source files from mesibo Python repo on GitHub
git clone https://github.com/mesibo/python.git
You will find the following directory structure:
|-- examples
|-- setup.py
|-- src
To build the mesibo Python package from source
sudo python setup.py build
To build and install the mesibo Python package from source
sudo python setup.py install
Importing Mesibo
Once you have installed mesibo Python package sucessfully, you should be able to use mesibo in Python as follows:
from mesibo import Mesibo
Next Steps
Checkout the tutorial Write your First mesibo Enabled Application - Python
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