Google Cloud Python Client

Python idiomatic client for Google Cloud Platform services.

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• Homepage_

.. _Homepage: https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/gcloud-python/

This client supports the following Google Cloud Platform services:

• Google Cloud Datastore_
• Google Cloud Storage_

.. _Google Cloud Datastore: https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-datastore/ .. _Google Cloud Storage: https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage/

If you need support for other Google APIs, check out the Google APIs Python Client library_.

.. _Google APIs Python Client library: https://github.com/google/google-api-python-client

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning_.

.. _Semantic Versioning: http://semver.org/

It is currently in major version zero (0.y.z), which means that anything may change at any time and the public API should not be considered stable.

Quickstart

::

$ pip install gcloud

Google Cloud Datastore

Google Cloud Datastore_ is a fully managed, schemaless database for storing non-relational data. Cloud Datastore automatically scales with your users and supports ACID transactions, high availability of reads and writes, strong consistency for reads and ancestor queries, and eventual consistency for all other queries.

.. _Cloud Datastore: https://developers.google.com/datastore/

See the Google Cloud Datastore docs_ for more details on how to activate Cloud Datastore for your project.

.. _Google Cloud Datastore docs: https://developers.google.com/datastore/docs/activate

See the gcloud-python API datastore documentation_ to learn how to interact with the Cloud Datastore using this Client Library.

.. _datastore documentation: https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/gcloud-python/datastore-api.html

.. code:: python

from gcloud import datastore
datastore.set_defaults()
# Then do other things...
query = datastore.Query(kind='EntityKind')
entity = datastore.Entity(key=datastore.Key('EntityKind'))

Google Cloud Storage

Google Cloud Storage_ allows you to store data on Google infrastructure with very high reliability, performance and availability, and can be used to distribute large data objects to users via direct download.

.. _Cloud Storage: https://developers.google.com/storage/

You need to create a Google Cloud Storage bucket to use this client library. Follow the steps on the Google Cloud Storage docs_ to learn how to create a bucket.

.. _Google Cloud Storage docs: https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/cloud-console#_creatingbuckets

See the gcloud-python API storage documentation_ to learn how to connect to Cloud Storage using this Client Library.

.. _storage documentation: https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/gcloud-python/storage-api.html

.. code:: python

import gcloud.storage
bucket = gcloud.storage.get_bucket('bucket-id-here', 'project-id')
# Then do other things...
blob = bucket.get_blob('/remote/path/to/file.txt')
print blob.download_as_string()
blob.upload_from_string('New contents!')
bucket.upload_file('/remote/path/storage.txt', '/local/path.txt')

Contributing

Contributions to this library are always welcome and highly encouraged.

See CONTRIBUTING_ for more information on how to get started.

.. _CONTRIBUTING: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-python/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst

Supported Python Versions

We support:

• Python 2.6_
• Python 2.7_

We plan to support:

• Python 3.3_
• Python 3.4_

.. _Python 2.6: https://docs.python.org/2.6/ .. _Python 2.7: https://docs.python.org/2.7/ .. _Python 3.3: https://docs.python.org/3.3/ .. _Python 3.4: https://docs.python.org/3.4/

Supported versions can be found in our tox.ini config_.

.. _config: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-python/blob/master/tox.ini

We explicitly decided not to support Python 2.5_ due to decreased usage_ and lack of continuous integration support_.

.. _Python 2.5: https://docs.python.org/2.5/ .. _decreased usage: https://caremad.io/2013/10/a-look-at-pypi-downloads/ .. _support: http://blog.travis-ci.com/2013-11-18-upcoming-build-environment-updates/

We also explicitly decided to support Python 3 beginning with version 3.3. Reasons for this include:

• Encouraging use of newest versions of Python 3
• Taking the lead of prominent open-source projects_
• Unicode literal support_ which allows for a cleaner codebase that works in both Python 2 and Python 3

.. _projects: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/python3/ .. _Unicode literal support: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0414/

License

Apache 2.0 - See LICENSE_ for more information.

.. _LICENSE: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-python/blob/master/LICENSE

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