Base for Everything

To use the API, the Client class defines a high-level interface which handles authorization and creating other objects:

from google.cloud.bigtable.client import Client
client = Client()

Long-lived Defaults

When creating a Client, the user_agent argument has sensible a default (DEFAULT_USER_AGENT). However, you may over-ride it and the value will be used throughout all API requests made with the client you create.

Configuration

• For an overview of authentication in google-cloud-python, see Authentication.

• In addition to any authentication configuration, you can also set the GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT environment variable for the Google Cloud Console project you’d like to interact with. If your code is running in Google App Engine or Google Compute Engine the project will be detected automatically. (Setting this environment variable is not required, you may instead pass the project explicitly when constructing a Client).

• After configuring your environment, create a Client

>>> from google.cloud import bigtable
>>> client =