eclipse-zenoh 0.4.2.dev3

Python client API for Eclipse zenoh


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# Eclipse zenoh Python API

[Eclipse zenoh](http://zenoh.io) is an extremely efficient and fault-tolerant [Named Data Networking](http://named-data.net) (NDN) protocol that is able to scale down to extremely constrainded devices and networks.

The Python API is for pure clients, in other terms does not support peer-to-peer communication, can be easily tested with our demo instace available at demo.zenoh.io.

## Dependencies The zenoh-python API depends on the [zenoh-c](https://github.com/eclipse-zenoh/zenoh-c) API. Thus the first thing to do is to ensure that zenoh-c in installed on your machine. To do so, please follow the instructions provided [here](https://github.com/eclipse-zenoh/zenoh-c/blob/master/README.md).

## Installing the Python API from Sources To install the API you can do:

$ python3 setup.py install

Notice that on some platforms, such as Linux, you will need to do this as sudo.

<!– ## Installing the API from PyPi You can also install the [zenoh](http://zenoh.io)’s python API from PyPi by simply doing:

pip3 install zenoh –>

## Running the Examples To run the bundled examples without installing any additional software you can the zenoh demo instance available at demo.zenoh.io. To do so, simply run as follows:

$ cd zenoh-python/example $ python3 sub.py -z demo.zenoh.io

From another terminal:

$ cd zenoh-python/example $ python3 sub.py -z demo.zenoh.io