This page contains information about getting started with the Cloud SQL Administration API using the Google APIs Client Library for Python. In addition, you may be interested in the following documentation:

• Browse the PyDoc reference for the Cloud SQL Administration API .
• Read the Developer's guide for the Google APIs Client Library for Python .
• Interact with this API in your browser using the APIs Explorer for the Cloud SQL Administration API .

System requirements

• Operating systems :
  • Linux
  • Mac OS X
  • Windows

  Note : This library is pure Python, so other operating systems with Python support may work as well.

• The latest version of Python 2 .
• Python package installation manager : Setuptools or pip .

Manual Installation

To install the library and all of its dependencies, open a terminal and do one of the following:

• Use the easy_install tool included in the setuptools package:

  $ easy_install --upgrade google-api-python-client

• Use the pip tool:

  $ pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client

Depending on your system, you may need to prepend those commands with sudo .

App Engine

Because Google App Engine requires that all of the source files for a library must be present in your App Engine project, there is a special installation procedure for App Engine. To install the library and all of its dependencies in an App Engine project, download the file named google-api-python-client-gae- N.M .zip from the list of downloads , where N.M is the version number of the latest release. Unzip that file into your project. For example:

$ cd myproject
$ unzip google-api-python-client-gae-1.1.zip