google cloud sdk: set environment variable_ python --> linux

python linux google-app-engine gcloud

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Solution 1

This is a very easy thing to solve. The native python command on the Arch command line is actually for Python 3. The SDK requires Python2.7 and the

Just go to the google-cloud-sdk folder and open the install.sh file.
Change the CLOUDSDK_PYTHON="python" value to CLOUDSDK_PYTHON="python2.7"
Rerun the install with the command
```
./install.sh
```
in the same folder and follow the prompts.

That's all.

Solution 2

I had the same issue so I did a little change in the dev_appserver.py. This file is in the following path :

google-cloud-sdk/bin

change the shebang from /usr/bin/env python to /usr/bin/env python2

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Updated on August 30, 2020

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smatthewenglish over 3 years
```
ERROR: Python 3 is not supported by the Google Cloud SDK.  Please use a Python 2.x version that is 2.6 or greater.

If you have a compatible Python interpreter installed, you can use it by setting the CLOUDSDK_PYTHON environment variable to point to it.
```
I guess the first question we should be asking is "with all the money google makes off of their customers why can't they hire someone to ensure that their cloud sdk works with python 3?"

How exactly to overcome this error on linux? What specific files need to be edited? and where should those files be located?

I searched around, a lot, and found this question about how to fix this on Windows, but the answer is not really that comprehensive.

Thus far I've attempted:

One source of documentationsays to modify a file called app.yaml, but I searched using the command find . -name "app.yaml" and no such file exists.

Specifically I'm using arch linux, I originally tried to use the AUR package but it's disfunctional.

So I installed from the documentation, making sure to edit the ./install.sh file, specifying python2 as per this discussion on the google groups, that doesn't work either. after running the command gcloud auth login I get the same error as posted above.
- Daniel Roseman almost 9 years
  
  Why can you not do exactly what the message says, and set the CLOUDSDK_PYTHON environment variable? Why do you think files need to be "edited"?
- smatthewenglish almost 9 years
  
  so what is that? just set CLOUDSDK_PYTHON = *location of python2?
- Vilas almost 9 years
  
  Yes, something like this: export CLOUDSDK_PYTHON=/path/to/appropriate/python
- smatthewenglish almost 9 years
  
  What does that do exactly? Changes my ~/bashrc file is it?
- koshy george about 5 years
  
  I guess the first question we should be asking is "with all the money google makes off of their customers why can't they hire someone to ensure that their cloud sdk works with python 3?" -same here
smatthewenglish almost 9 years

Thats what that Google group said to do, I tried it and it didn't work
smatthewenglish almost 9 years

Maybe I need to say "2.7", I said 2 only
A. Yekeen almost 9 years

Specify it - python2.7
A. Yekeen almost 9 years

By the way, use this command <pre>export CLOUDSDK_PYTHON=python2.7</pre> after installation to avoid any potential post installation problem.
smatthewenglish almost 9 years

that changes my file ~/bashrc isn't it? is that what that command does?
A. Yekeen almost 9 years

Only for that terminal session. I found that after installation, anytime I tried to use the gcloud commands led to an error but setting the CLOUDSDK_PYTHON to python2.7 worked as a temporary fix for the session.
Raffael almost 5 years

whereis dev_appserver.py
Jean Spector almost 4 years

gcloud is now compatible with python3