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Package writes to "apiclient" directory when installed #2485
Description
Environment details
- OS type and version: Linux
- Python version: 3.12.5
- pip version: 24.2
google-api-python-clientversion: 2.145.0
Steps to reproduce
python -m virtualenv venv. venv/bin/activatepip install api-clientpython -c 'from apiclient import HeaderAuthentication'pip install firebase-adminpython -c 'from apiclient import HeaderAuthentication'
I expect step 6 to be the same as step 4 here, but it results in a stack trace since firebase-admin depends on google-api-python-client which is overwriting .../site-packages/apiclient/. What's even worse is that some package managers (e.g., poetry) seem to install this in a random order resulting in it sometimes working and sometimes not.
Code example
from apiclient import HeaderAuthenticationStack trace
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name 'HeaderAuthentication' from 'apiclient' (/private/tmp/test1/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/apiclient/__init__.py)
Activity
ohmayr commentedon Sep 20, 2024
Thanks for reporting this @kruton. We'll take a look into this.
kruton commentedon Dec 6, 2024
I rebased the pull request #2486 onto the newest release.
kruton commentedon Jan 31, 2025
Hi, @ohmayr any chance this could be merged? I cut out the translated documentation changes to make it easier to review. The documentation should be generated automatically from
googleapiclient/discovery.pynext time pydoc is run.daniel-sanche commentedon Jan 28, 2026
Thanks for putting the fix together, but unfortunately this repo contains legacy versions of our GCP libraries and is in maintenance mode, so we try not to make major changes here. Removing the
apiclientalias would be a breaking change, which could have a large impact on existing user code, so it's not a change we'll be able to make at this timeIf it's at all possible, I'd recommend trying to move to the more modern gapic libraries (This is the gapic equivalent of firebase admin). If that's not possible, you may be able to make a fork of this code to accomplish what you need