From the course: Data Science on Google Cloud Platform: Building Data Pipelines
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Setting up Python - Google Cloud Tutorial
From the course: Data Science on Google Cloud Platform: Building Data Pipelines
Setting up Python
- [Narrator] Now, I will show you how to set up Python for data flow. You can also use Java or Go languages and the GCP online documentation provides instructions on how to set up and use them. To set up Python, I'm going to first log into a virtual machine. For that, I'm going to go to Navigation, Compute Engine, VM instances. I have two VM's created here, VM one demo and VM two demo. I am going to open the shell for the VM one demo. Now first, I'm gonna check the version of Python installed here by typing 'Python minus minus version'. It tells me Python two dot seven is installed, so that is good. If Python is missing, you have to install Python in your setup. Next, I need to make sure that PIP is installed in my setup. This is the Python Package Installer. And PIP is also there. PIP version should be at least ten or above. That is confirming here. If not, please upgrade your PIP version. If you're using Python, I strongly recommend that you create your examples under a virtual…
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