When using google-api-python-client When calling multiple methods like update, append etc. using service object created with
service = discovery.build('sheets', 'v4', credentials=credentials`)
Is it a best practice to create the service object once and reuse it throughout the program or should I create new service objects each time with discovery.build when calling an API function like service.spreadsheets().values().append,service.spreadsheets().values().get etc.
Basically my question is can I use the same service service object multiple times in the application.
What is the recommended way to do it?
As long as you are using the same API, you should use the same service object for each API method call.
The only reason you would need to make multiple service objects is if your application was using different APIs (Drive, Gmail, Sheets, etc). The service object is a build of the API interaction which can be used as many times as you like within the same application to interact with the API to which it has been built.