Dialogflow: Python Client

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Python idiomatic client for `Dialogflow`_

Dialogflow_ is an enterprise-grade NLU platform that makes it easy for
developers to design and integrate conversational user interfaces into
mobile apps, web applications, devices, and bots.

• Dialogflow Python Client API Reference <https://googleapis.dev/python/dialogflow/latest/index.html>_
• Dialogflow Standard Edition Documentation <https://www.dialogflow.com>_
• Dialogflow Enterprise Edition Documentation <https://cloud.google.com/dialogflow-enterprise/docs>_

Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the older
Google APIs Client Libraries, in
Client Libraries Explained <https://cloud.google.com/apis/docs/client-libraries-explained>_.

.. _Dialogflow: https://dialogflow.com/

Before you begin

#. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.
#. Enable billing for your project.
#. Enable the Google Cloud Dialogflow API.
#. Set up authentication with a service account so you can access the
API from your local workstation.

.. _project: https://console.cloud.google.com/project
.. _Enable billing: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6293499#enable-billing
.. _Enable the Google Cloud Dialogflow API: https://console.cloud.google.com/flows/enableapi?apiid=dialogflow.googleapis.com
.. _Set up authentication: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started

Installation

.. code-block:: shell

pip install dialogflow

.. note::

We highly recommend that you install this library in a
`virtualenv <https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/>`_.

Supported Python Versions
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Python >= 3.5

Deprecated Python Versions
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Python == 2.7. Python 2.7 support will be removed on January 1, 2020.

Usage

View usage documentation <https://googleapis.dev/python/dialogflow/latest/index.html>_.

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning <http://semver.org/>_.

This library is considered to be stable. This means and that the code surface will not change in backwards-incompatible
ways unless either absolutely necessary (e.g. because of critical security issues) or with an extensive deprecation
period. Issues and requests against GA libraries are addressed with the highest priority.

More Information: Google Cloud Python Library Support <https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/blob/master/README.rst#general-availability>_

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See the Contributing Guide <https://github.com/googleapis/python-dialogflow/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md>_.

License

Apache Version 2.0

See the LICENSE file <https://github.com/googleapis/python-dialogflow/blob/master/LICENSE>_ for more information.

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