ask-sdk-core is the core SDK package for Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) by the Software Development Kit (SDK) team for Python. It provides the base components and default implementations which work as the boiler plate code for developing Alexa Skills.

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

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

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-core
$ virtualenv venv
...
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ python setup.py install

Getting started guides, SDK Features, API references, samples etc. can be found at Read The Docs

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