Set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS in Python project to use Google API

Question

I am a programming beginner and thing I\'m trying to learn how to use google API with Python.

I have:

1. created a project on Google Cloud an

Answer 1

If you're working on a jupyter notebook and want to set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable in Python code :

import os
os.environ["GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS"]="/path/to/file.json"