Core Helpers for Google Cloud Python Client Library
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This library is not meant to stand-alone. Instead it defines
common helpers (e.g. base ``Client`` classes) used by all of the
``google-cloud-*`` packages.


-  `Documentation`_

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.. _Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/google-cloud-core/latest

Quick Start
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.. code-block:: console

    $ pip install --upgrade google-cloud-core

For more information on setting up your Python development environment,
such as installing ``pip`` and ``virtualenv`` on your system, please refer
to `Python Development Environment Setup Guide`_ for Google Cloud Platform.

.. _Python Development Environment Setup Guide: https://cloud.google.com/python/setup


Supported Python Versions
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Python >= 3.7

Unsupported Python Versions
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Python == 2.7: the last version of this library which supported Python 2.7
is ``google.cloud.core 1.7.2``.

Python == 3.6: the last version of this library which supported Python 3.6
is ``google.cloud.core 2.3.1``.