quickstart.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

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def run_quickstart(override_values={}):
    # [START bigquery_quickstart]
    # Imports the Google Cloud client library
    from google.cloud import bigquery

    # Instantiates a client
    bigquery_client = bigquery.Client()

    # The name for the new dataset
    dataset_id = "my_new_dataset"

    # [END bigquery_quickstart]
    # To facilitate testing, we replace values with alternatives
    # provided by the testing harness.
    dataset_id = override_values.get("dataset_id", dataset_id)
    # [START bigquery_quickstart]

    # Prepares a reference to the new dataset
    dataset_id_full = "{}.{}".format(bigquery_client.project, dataset_id)
    dataset = bigquery.Dataset(dataset_id_full)

    # Creates the new dataset
    dataset = bigquery_client.create_dataset(dataset)

    print("Dataset {} created.".format(dataset.dataset_id))
    # [END bigquery_quickstart]


if __name__ == "__main__":
    run_quickstart()