abseil-py
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Abseil Common Libraries (Python)
v2.2.2
April 3, 2025

Added

  • (testing) Added a new method absltest.TestCase.assertMappingEqual that tests equality of Mapping objects not requiring them to be dicts. Similar to assertSequenceEqual but for mappings.
  • (testing) Added a new method absltest.assertDictContainsSubset that checks that a dictionary contains a subset of keys and values. Similar to a removed method unittest.assertDictContainsSubset (existed until Python 3.11).
  • Added type annotations that are compliant with MyPy.

Changed

  • Removed support for Python 3.7.

Fixed

  • (testing) Fixed an issue where the test reporter crashes with exceptions with no string representation, starting with Python 3.11.

(The change log also includes changes in 2.2.0 and 2.2.1.)

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.