Google provides a sample HelloAnalytics.py to demonstrate the use of google-api-python-client.
Below the heading "2. Install the client library" they write:
Use pip, the recommended tool for installing Python packages:
sudo pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client
I wonder why I should use sudo while a simple pip (without sudo) seems to work perfectly (on my Mac):
% pip install google-api-python-client
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Is that sample simply outdated? (They use print without () though Python 2.7 seems to be deprecated for google-api-python-client which confused others already.)
I fixed that and still get an ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'oauth2client'. Am I right that the missing sudo is not the cause for that?
Well, and they do not explain what a VIEW_ID is and where to get this.
It works without sudo for you because you seem to have python installed in a location where your user has write permissions.
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools>=34.0.0 in ./venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from google-api-core<2dev,>=1.18.0->google-api-python-client) (41.2.0)
It all depends on how and where you install python. The mac os distro python is installed in /Library/ which is owned by root. So if you want to install a new package, you will need to use sudo.