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Geopy not supported on Google App Engine?

I am looking to use geopy with Python 2.7 on GAE. However, when I deploy the code I get the following error:

appcfg.py: error: Error parsing C:\myPrograms\Google AppEngine\Programs\Balefire\app.yaml: the library "geopy" is not supported

My app.yaml has:

libraries:
- name: webapp2
  version: latest
- name: pycrypto
  version: "2.6"
- name: ssl
  version: latest
- name: geopy
  version: latest

Does GAE really not support this library and if so what are the alternatives?

Solution

  • The libraries that you can specify versions of in app.yaml are listed in https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/libraries27

    geopy isn't in that list. But if geopy is pure python (which https://github.com/geopy/geopy appears to be at a quick glance), it may be possible to include it as part of your application.