---
id: proto-plus
version: "1.28.3"
license: Apache 2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# proto-plus — Beautiful, Pythonic protocol buffers

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install proto-plus
uv add proto-plus
poetry add proto-plus

## Description

Proto Plus for Python
=====================

|pypi| |release level|

    Beautiful, Pythonic protocol buffers.

This is a wrapper around `protocol buffers`_. Protocol buffers is a
specification format for APIs, such as those inside Google.
This library provides protocol buffer message classes and objects that
largely behave like native Python types.

.. _protocol buffers: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/


Documentation
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`API Documentation`_ is available on Read the Docs.

.. _API Documentation: https://googleapis.dev/python/proto-plus/latest/

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   :target: https://pypi.org/project/proto-plus
.. |release level| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/release%20level-ga-gold.svg?style=flat
  :target: https://cloud.google.com/terms/launch-stages

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

proto-plus wraps protocol buffers to provide Pythonic message classes that behave like native Python types, making it easier to work with Google's protocol buffer format in Python applications.

Verdict: proto-plus is a well-maintained, production-stable library (Development Status 5) in the top 1000 PyPI packages with no known vulnerabilities. Its permissive Apache 2.0 license and low install friction make it a reliable choice for Pythonic protocol buffer integration in Google Cloud and other protobuf-based projects.

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