Zulip API

This repository contains the source code for Zulip’s PyPI packages:

• zulip: PyPI package for Zulip’s API bindings.
• zulip_bots: PyPI package for Zulip’s bots and bots API.
• zulip_botserver: PyPI package for Zulip’s Flask Botserver.

The source code is written in Python 3.

Development

This is part of the Zulip open source project; see the contributing guide and commit guidelines.

1. Fork and clone the Git repo, and set upstream to zulip/python-zulip-api:

   git clone https://github.com/<your_username>/python-zulip-api.git
   cd python-zulip-api
   git remote add upstream https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api.git
   git fetch upstream
   

2. Make sure you have pip.

3. Run:

   python3 ./tools/provision
   

   This sets up a virtual Python environment in zulip-api-py<your_python_version>-venv, where <your_python_version> is your default version of Python. If you would like to specify a different Python version, run

   python3 ./tools/provision -p <path_to_your_python_version>
   

4. If that succeeds, it will end with printing the following command:

   source /.../python-zulip-api/.../activate
   

   You can run this command to enter the virtual environment. You’ll want to run this in each new shell before running commands from python-zulip-api.

5. Once you’ve entered the virtualenv, you should see something like this on the terminal:

   (zulip-api-py3-venv) user@pc ~/python-zulip-api $
   

   You should now be able to run any commands/tests/etc. in this virtual environment.

Running tests

You can run all the tests with:

pytest

or test individual packages with pytest zulip, pytest zulip_bots, or pytest zulip_botserver (see the pytest documentation for more options).

To run the linter, type:

./tools/lint

To check the type annotations, run:

./tools/run-mypy