“\Google\Cloud was unexpected.” when executing gcloud command

Question

The instalation of Google Cloud SDK went right. The problem is when I try to execute a gcloud command (even if gcloud -h) I have this output:

\\Google\\Cl

Answer 1

There is already a bug for issues when updating to Cloud SDK version 274.0.0 in Windows. Please check it. As a workaround installing Python in C:\Python27 and then Cloud SDK in C:\Cloud_SDK could help.

I suggest to migrate to Python 3 as Python 2 will not be maintained past 2020. Here is more info about it.