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.

1. Fork and clone the Git repo: git clone https://github.com/<your_username>/python-zulip-api.git

2. Make sure you have pip and virtualenv installed.

3. cd into the repository cloned earlier: cd python-zulip-api

4. 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>
   

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

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

   You can run 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.

6. 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.

To run the tests for

• zulip: run ./tools/test-zulip

• zulip_bots: run ./tools/test-bots

• zulip_botserver: run ./tools/test-botserver

To run the linter, type:

./tools/lint

To check the type annotations, run:

./tools/run-mypy