How to install gcp in Python?

Question

Lots of the BigQuery examples begin with:

import gcp.bigquery as bq

But I get ImportError: No module named gcp.bigquery whenev

Answer 1

If you're accessing BigQuery in python, you can do that using the gcloud library.

First, install the gcloud library:

$ pip install --upgrade gcloud

Then, after setting up your auth and project info, you can make api calls in python like this (adapted from the gcloud-python docs):

from gcloud import bigquery

client = bigquery.Client()
datasets, next_page_token = client.list_datasets()
print([dataset.name for dataset in datasets])

(As someone mentioned previously, you can also do it using the google-api-python-client.)

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