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Pyplatform is a data analytics platform built around Google BigQuery. This package provides wrapper functions for interacting with cloud services and creating data pipelines using Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, O365, and Tableau Server as source and destination.
pip install pyplatform
git clone https://github.com/mhadi813/pyplatform
cd pyplatform
conda env create -f pyplatform_dev.yml
Credential file path can be set a environment varible in conda env activation script or bash profiles. Please reference conda documentation for enviroment variables and environment activation script
import os
# if env activation script not created: update path to credential files
# see ``secrets`` folder for credential tamplates
# see functions ``docstring`` for authentication methods when calling a function
os.environ['GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS'] = './secrets/dummy_gcp_service_account_credentials.json'
os.environ["AZURE_CREDENTIALS"]= './secrets/dummy_ms_azure_credentials.json'
os.environ['TABLEAU_SERVER_CREDENTIALS']='./secrets/dummy_tableau_server_credentials.json'
os.environ['PIVOTAL_CREDENTIALS']='./secrets/dummy_pivotal_credentials.json'
os.environ['DATASET'] = 'default_bigquery_dataset_name'
os.environ['STORAGE_BUCKET'] = 'default_storage_bucket_id'
from pyplatform.common import *
show_me()
import pyplatform as pyp
show_me(pyp)
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Pyplatform is a data analytics platform built around Google BigQuery. This package provides wrapper functions for interacting with cloud services and creating data pipelines using Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, O365, and Tableau Server as source and destination.
We found that pyplatform demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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