vibrato/gae-python2 repository overview

⁠GAE Python Image

For testing applications running on Google's App Engine you need to have python configured with the google-cloud-sdk. Annoyingly these libraries are not something that can be pip installed like other dependencies, they must be installed into the OS.

This is simply a python 2.7 image with google-cloud-sdk installed and the PYTHONPATH set up so that the base modules can be imported. We need this as a docker container for CI systems such as CircleCI or bitbucket pipelines where we provide our own runtime.

⁠Usage

Almost certainly the first thing you are going to want to do in python is:

>>> import dev_appserver
>>> dev_appserver.fix_sys_path()

to fix the path to include the rest of the google specific libraries. It's so common in fact that we should probably do it in the image - but that wouldn't work very well with our existing tests so for now we just set up PATH so we can import dev_appserver.