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| 1 Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format | 1 Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format |
| 2 =================================================== | 2 =================================================== |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4 [](https
://travis-ci.org/google/protobuf) | 4 [](https
://travis-ci.org/google/protobuf) |
| 5 | 5 |
| 6 Copyright 2008 Google Inc. | 6 Copyright 2008 Google Inc. |
| 7 | 7 |
| 8 This directory contains the Python Protocol Buffers runtime library. | 8 This directory contains the Python Protocol Buffers runtime library. |
| 9 | 9 |
| 10 Normally, this directory comes as part of the protobuf package, available | 10 Normally, this directory comes as part of the protobuf package, available |
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| 116 web at: | 116 web at: |
| 117 | 117 |
| 118 https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/ | 118 https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/ |
| 119 | 119 |
| 120 C++ Implementation | 120 C++ Implementation |
| 121 ================== | 121 ================== |
| 122 | 122 |
| 123 The C++ implementation for Python messages is built as a Python extension to | 123 The C++ implementation for Python messages is built as a Python extension to |
| 124 improve the overall protobuf Python performance. | 124 improve the overall protobuf Python performance. |
| 125 | 125 |
| 126 To use the C++ implementation, you need to: | 126 To use the C++ implementation, you need to install the C++ protobuf runtime |
| 127 1) Install the C++ protobuf runtime library, please see instructions in the | 127 library, please see instructions in the parent directory. |
| 128 parent directory. | |
| 129 2) Export an environment variable: | |
| 130 | |
| 131 $ export PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=cpp | |
| 132 | |
| 133 You must set this variable at runtime, before running your program, otherwise | |
| 134 the pure-Python implementation will be used. In a future release, we will | |
| 135 change the default so that C++ implementation is used whenever it is available. | |
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