After installing and configuring Google Cloud SDK gsutil
command can be run by simply typing its name and the argument(-s) using Windows cmd.
Here is the example:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk\bin\gcloud" version
But the same command fails if run using Python subprocess.
With subprocess's shell
argument set to True the ImportError
occurs:
import subprocess
cmd = '"C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Cloud SDK/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gsutil" version'
p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True)
.....
ImportError: No module named site
With subprocess's shell
argument set to False then the WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
occurs:
p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=False)
Is there a way to run gsutil
on Windows using Python?
Note that the proper and official way to interact with Google Cloud Storage is to make use of the Google Cloud Client Library for Python
and not running the gsutil
command through subprocess.Popen
.
If you are not setting up merely some tests I would suggest you to follow from the beginning this way if there is not any technological constrain that makes this way impracticable.
You can check at the following links the relative Overview and Documentation. A small example taken from the Documentation can be the following:
from google.cloud import storage
client = storage.Client()
bucket = client.get_bucket('<your-bucket-name>')
blob = bucket.blob('my-test-file.txt')
blob.upload_from_string('this is test content!')
You can find a further example here using google-cloud-python with the Datastore and Cloud Storage to manage expenses.