Mac gcloud install ImportError: No module named __future__

Question

When installing gcloud for mac I get this error when I run the install.sh command according to docs here:

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Answer 1

I had the error below when trying to run gcloud commands.

  File "/usr/local/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/lib/gcloud.py", line 20, in 
    from __future__ import absolute_import
ImportError: No module named __future__

If you have your virtualenv sourced automatically you can specify the environment variable CLOUDSDK_PYTHON i.e. set -x CLOUDSDK_PYTHON /usr/bin/python to not use the virtualenv python.