Installing
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**protobuf3** is in the `Python Package Index <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/protobuf3/>`_.

Installing with PIP
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To use `pip <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip>`_ to install protobuf3::

  $ pip install protobuf3

To get a specific version of protobuf3::

  $ pip install protobuf3==1.0.0

To upgrade using pip::

  $ pip install --upgrade protobuf3


Installing from source
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If you'd rather install directly from the source (i.e. to stay on the bleeding edge), check out the
latest source from github and install the library from the resulting tree::

  $ git clone git@github.com:Pr0Ger/protobuf3.git
  $ cd protobuf3/
  $ python setup.py install