How can I create a new view in bigquery using the python API?

Question

I have some code that automatically generates a bunch of different SQL queries that I would like to insert into the bigquery to generate views, though one of the issues that

Answer 1

bigquery.version -> '1.10.0'

def create_view(client, dataset_name, view_name, view_query):
    try:
        dataset_ref = client.dataset(dataset_name)
        view = dataset_ref.table(view_name)
        # view.table_type = 'VIEW'
        view.view_query = view_query
        view.view_query_legacy_sql  = False
        client.create_table(view)
        pass
    except Exception as e:
        errorStr = 'ERROR (create_view): ' + str(e)
        print(errorStr)
        raise

create a table not a view !!!!

This is the right code to create a view:

def create_view(client, dataset_name, view_name, view_query):
    try:
        dataset_ref = client.dataset(dataset_name)
        view_ref = dataset_ref.table(view_name)
        table = bigquery.Table(view_ref)
        table.view_query = view_query
        table.view_use_legacy_sql = False
        client.create_table(table)
    except Exception as e:
        errorStr = 'ERROR (create_view): ' + str(e)
        print(errorStr)
        raise

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Is necessary

table = bigquery.Table(view_ref)