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.

Answer 2

If you want to use BlobService, you could install package azure.storage 0.20.0, there is BlobService in that version. In the latest azure.storage 0.30.0 , BlobSrvice is split into BlockBlobService, AppendBlobService, PageBlobService object, you could use BlockBlobService replace BlobService.

Answer 3

I had version 1.0.3 installed (which includes azure.storage version 0.20) on Ubuntu server 16.04 LTS and pip only reinstalled version 0.20 of azure.storage when I uninstalled and reinstalled the azure package. This was according to the pypi page for the azure package v. 2.0.0rc6 which recommends that to upgrade from 1.0.3 to version 2 you should do

sudo pip3 uninstall azure
sudo pip3 install azure

pypi/azure

Instead, this worked for me,

sudo pip3 uninstall azure
sudo pip3 install azure==2.0.0rc6

Answer 4

I had the same issue after using pip to install the azure package and, as the chosen answer suggests, this can be fixed by installing azure.storage 0.33.0.

However, if you're using pip, you might need to use the "--upgrade" option for it to install properly (this was my experience):

pip install azure-storage --upgrade