How to simulate app engine environment for a python3 application locally

[Santiago Del Valle]

I'm creating a micro service that should run on a python 3 standard environment of Google App Engine. I want to run it in a simulated Google app engine environment. In the python2 standard environment you could do something like:

dev_appserver.py [PATH_TO_YOUR_APP]

but as I understand this is not recommendedn and is way trickier to run for python3, so my question id. Does anyone know the recommendedn way of running a simulated Google app engine environment for a python 3 project that is going to run in the google app engine standard environment (I need to simulate data store).

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Santiago, 

You can find relevant information in the "Running locally" sub-chapter of the "Testing and deploying your application" documentation page. To test your application's functionality before deploying, run your application in your local environment with the development tools that you usually use. The actual procedure to run your app locally may depend on the environment and the development framework you employ.