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Google Cloud Platform Python Samples

Python samples for Google Cloud Platform products.

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Google Cloud Samples​

Check out some of the samples found on this repository on the Google Cloud Samples page.

Setup​

  1. Install pip and virtualenv if you do not already have them.

  2. Clone this repository:

    git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples.git

  3. Obtain authentication credentials.

    Create local credentials by running the following command and following the oauth2 flow (read more about the command here):

    gcloud auth application-default login

    Read more about Google Cloud Platform Authentication.

How to run a sample​

  1. Change directory to one of the sample folders, e.g. logging/cloud-client:

    cd logging/cloud-client/

  2. Create a virtualenv. Samples are compatible with Python 3.6+.

    python3 -m venv env
    source env/bin/activate

  3. Install the dependencies needed to run the samples.

    pip install -r requirements.txt

  4. Run the sample:

    python snippets.py

Contributing​

Contributions welcome! See the [Contributing Guide].