Mac gcloud install ImportError: No module named __future__

Question

When installing gcloud for mac I get this error when I run the install.sh command according to docs here:

Traceback (most recent call last):
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Answer 1

The script uses the -S command-line switch, which disables loading the site module on start-up.

However, it is a custom dedicated site module installed in a virtualenv that makes a virtualenv work. As such, the -S switch and virtualenvs are incompatible, with -S set fundamental imports such as from __future__ break down entirely.

You can either remove the -S switch from the install.bat command or use a wrapper script to strip it from the command line as you call your real virtualenv Python.

Answer 2

In google-cloud-sdk/install.sh go to last line, remove variable $CLOUDSDK_PYTHON_ARGS as below.

"$CLOUDSDK_PYTHON" $CLOUDSDK_PYTHON_ARGS "${CLOUDSDK_ROOT_DIR}/bin/bootstrapping/install.py" "$@"

"$CLOUDSDK_PYTHON" "${CLOUDSDK_ROOT_DIR}/bin/bootstrapping/install.py" "$@"

Answer 3

I had the error below when trying to run gcloud commands.

  File "/usr/local/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/lib/gcloud.py", line 20, in <module>
    from __future__ import absolute_import
ImportError: No module named __future__

If you have your virtualenv sourced automatically you can specify the environment variable CLOUDSDK_PYTHON i.e. set -x CLOUDSDK_PYTHON /usr/bin/python to not use the virtualenv python.