GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples
Python Docs Samples
This repository is a collection of Python code examples that demonstrate how to use Google Cloud Platform services and APIs. Each sample is organized as a self-contained directory with its own dependencies, making it independently runnable and testable. The samples rely on Google's auto-generated Python client libraries and standardize invocation through command-line argument parsing, with configuration read from environment variables for portability across development and CI environments.
The examples cover authentication setup using the gcloud CLI, along with practical demonstrations for services including Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub. The code includes inline documentation comments that explain usage and expected outputs, and each sample runs in its own virtual environment to prevent dependency conflicts. The repository provides ready-to-run scripts that illustrate proper patterns for calling Google Cloud APIs from Python applications.
