The GRPC quickstart guide refers to generating GRPC stubs using python code similar to run_codegen.py
When you look in this file, you see what appears to be a command line like: protoc --python_out=. --grpc_python_out=. myfile.proto
However, if you actually try to execude that command line with either protoc 2.6.1 or 3.0.0, you get this error:
protoc-gen-grpc_python: program not found or is not executable --grpc_python_out: protoc-gen-grpc_python: Plugin failed with status code 1.The solution is to make sure that the grpcio-tools python package is installed and use the command line in the tutorial instead: python -m grpc.tools.protoc --proto_path=. --python_out=. --grpc_python_out=. proto2.proto
As far as I am able to tell from the output, python -m grpc.tools.protoc is equivalent to protoc 3.0.0 in which case, if you want to use GRPC and python, you don't even need to have the protoc binary installed anywhere else anymore and just rely on the dynamic library version in grpcio-tools .