**DEPRECATED - Please see alternatives below**

google-apitools
===============

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``google-apitools`` is a collection of utilities to make it easier to build
client-side tools, especially those that talk to Google APIs.

**NOTE**: This library is deprecated and unsupported. Please read below for suggested alternatives.

Alternatives to apitools
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For the official Cloud client libraries used to communicating with Google Cloud APIs, go to https://cloud.google.com/apis/docs/cloud-client-libraries.

To generate Python API client libraries for APIs specified by protos, such as those inside Google, see https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-python. 
API client library generators for other languages can be found in https://github.com/googleapis.

Installing as a library
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To install the library into the current virtual environment::

   $ pip install google-apitools

Installing the command-line tools
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To install the command-line scripts into the current virtual environment::

   $ pip install google-apitools[cli]

Running the tests
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First, install the testing dependencies::

   $ pip install google-apitools[testing]

and the ``nose`` testrunner::

   $ pip install nose

Then run the tests::

   $ nosetests

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