Python Client for Google Cloud Datastore API

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Google Cloud Datastore API_: is a fully managed, schemaless database for
storing non-relational data. Cloud Datastore automatically scales with
your users and supports ACID transactions, high availability of reads and
writes, strong consistency for reads and ancestor queries, and eventual
consistency for all other queries.

• Client Library Documentation_
• Product Documentation_

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.. _Google Cloud Datastore API: https://cloud.google.com/datastore
.. _Client Library Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/datastore/latest
.. _Product Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/datastore

Quick Start

In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project._
2. Enable billing for your project._
3. Enable the Google Cloud Datastore API._
4. Setup Authentication._

.. _Select or create a Cloud Platform project.: https://console.cloud.google.com/project
.. _Enable billing for your project.: https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/modify-project#enable_billing_for_a_project
.. _Enable the Google Cloud Datastore API.: https://cloud.google.com/datastore
.. _Setup Authentication.: https://googleapis.dev/python/google-api-core/latest/auth.html

Installation

Install this library in a `virtualenv`_ using pip. `virtualenv`_ is a tool to
create isolated Python environments. The basic problem it addresses is one of
dependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions.

With `virtualenv`_, it's possible to install this library without needing system
install permissions, and without clashing with the installed system
dependencies.

.. _`virtualenv`: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/


Code samples and snippets

Code samples and snippets live in the samples/ folder.

Supported Python Versions
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Our client libraries are compatible with all current active_ and maintenance_ versions of
Python.

Python >= 3.7

.. _active: https://devguide.python.org/devcycle/#in-development-main-branch
.. _maintenance: https://devguide.python.org/devcycle/#maintenance-branches

Unsupported Python Versions
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Python <= 3.6

If you are using an end-of-life_
version of Python, we recommend that you update as soon as possible to an actively supported version.

.. _end-of-life: https://devguide.python.org/devcycle/#end-of-life-branches

Mac/Linux
^^^^^^^^^

.. code-block:: console

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv <your-env>
source <your-env>/bin/activate
<your-env>/bin/pip install google-cloud-datastore

Windows
^^^^^^^

.. code-block:: console

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv <your-env>
<your-env>\Scripts\activate
<your-env>\Scripts\pip.exe install google-cloud-datastore

Next Steps

-  Read the `Client Library Documentation`_ for Google Cloud Datastore API
   to see other available methods on the client.
-  Read the `Google Cloud Datastore API Product documentation`_ to learn
   more about the product and see How-to Guides.
-  View this `README`_ to see the full list of Cloud
   APIs that we cover.

.. _Google Cloud Datastore API Product documentation:  https://cloud.google.com/datastore
.. _README: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/blob/main/README.rst