google cloud sdk: set environment variable_ python --> linux

Question

ERROR: Python 3 is not supported by the Google Cloud SDK.  Please use a Python 2.x version that is 2.6 or greater.

If you have a compatible Python interpreter insta         


        

Answer 1

I see this almost every time I update gcloud SDK, especially when running dev_appserver.py

I found that setting the CLOUDSDK_PYTHON env variable to 'python2' seems to silence the error. E.g on macOS:

export CLOUDSDK_PYTHON=python2

Not sure why they simply cannot make this dev server compatible with Python 3 already