Google Cloud -- Good for small programmes?

[ryan broman]

I have a Python 3 programme that forms semicoherent sentences via Markov chains every 6 minutes and posts these sentences to a social network, and also sometimes interacts with its "friend"'s posts as well. It's small code and and it doesn't use much storage, maybe 10MB at max.

Would Google Cloud be a good host for me to run my code on? All I need it to do is run my code as I would at home.

Also, do you think this would remain under Google's free hosting cap?

[Alex Martelli]

Hello Ryan,

the task you describe sounds ideal for Google App Engine, which does have an ongoing free quota you'd likely fit in -- except that GAE (in the standard runtimes, those with free quotas) does not currently support Python 3 -- you'd have to port your program to Python 2.7. (Also, you cannot use libraries that are not pure Python, except for those GAE itself supplies, as listed at https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/libraries27 ; pure-Python libraries are fine and you can add them to your project; I can't help with this part since you tell us nothing about what libraries, if any, you're using).

I realize that Python 3 is a superior tool, but, 2.7 is not so bad either, and currently still more widespread in most field (my new book, http://www.oreilly.com/go/python45 , covers both 2.7 and 3.5, and chapter 25, still not complete in the current Early Release [but if you get that you'll get all updates as they become ready], in particular, covers how to port between the two versions and how to write code modules that can run well in both versions).

Alex

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[ryan broman]

Thank you! All the libraries I need are pure Python, so the GAE shouldn't have any problem downloading them if I put it in the requirements.txt

[Alex Martelli]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:17 PM, ryan broman <ryanj...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you! All the libraries I need are pure Python, so the GAE shouldn't have any problem downloading them if I put it in the requirements.txt

As long as everything's Python *** 2.7 ***, that should indeed be the case.

Alex

 

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