ask-sdk is the standard SDK package for Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) by the Software Development Kit (SDK) team for Python. It is a all batteries included package for developing Alexa Skills.

Assuming that you have Python and virtualenv installed, you can install the package and it's dependencies (ask-sdk-model, ask-sdk-core, ask-sdk-dynamodb-persistence-adapter) from PyPi as follows:

$ virtualenv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip install ask-sdk

You can also install the whole standard package locally by following these steps:

$ git clone https://github.com/alexa/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-python.git
$ cd alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-python/ask-sdk
$ virtualenv venv
...
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ python setup.py install

Getting started guides, SDK Features, API references, samples etc. can be found in the technical documentation

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