How to import Azure BlobService in python?

Question

We are able to import azure.storage, but not access the BlobService attribute

The documentation says to use the following import statement:

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Answer 1

It's possible the library has changed since that tutorial was published, but...

I just tried this a few moments ago, successfully:

from azure.storage.blob import BlockBlobService

blob_service = BlockBlobService(account_name="...",account_key="...")

And I installed Azure storage locally via:

pip install azure-storage

I was able to test this by downloading an object from storage:

blob_service.get_blob_to_path("containername","blobname","localfilename")

Note: You could import PageBlobService in similar fashion, but you might not find that too valuable, since page blobs are primarily for vhd's.