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Protocol Buffers Handbook
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Protocol Buffers Handbook

by Clément Jean
April 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
226 pages
4h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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8

Implementing the Address Book in Python

In the previous chapter, we created an address book in Golang. In this chapter, we are going to implement the same application in Python. The goal here is to, of course, learn about interacting with Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) in Python, but also to show you the interoperability of Protobuf binary. At the end of the chapter, we will have two applications that can serialize and deserialize our Address Book.

In this chapter we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Interacting with most Protobuf constructs in Python
  • Writing/reading Protobuf encoded data to/from file
  • Using Protobuf reflection to act on field data

By the end of the chapter, you will be able to interact with the Protobuf-generated ...

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