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- Version
- 1.19.1
- Maintainers
- 2
Core Library for Google Client Libraries
|pypi| |versions|
This library is not meant to stand-alone. Instead it defines
common helpers used by all Google API clients. For more information, see the
documentation_.
.. |pypi| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/google-api_core.svg :target: https://pypi.org/project/google-api_core/ .. |versions| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/google-api_core.svg :target: https://pypi.org/project/google-api_core/ .. _documentation: https://googleapis.dev/python/google-api-core/latest
Supported Python Versions
Python >= 3.7
Unsupported Python Versions
Python == 2.7, Python == 3.5, Python == 3.6.
The last version of this library compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.5 is
google-api-core==1.31.1.
The last version of this library compatible with Python 3.6 is
google-api-core==2.8.2.
FAQs
Google API client core library
We found that google-api-core demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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