Smart_open: Support for GCS

[Arvinds-ds]

Do you have plans to support the Google Cloud Storage protocol gcs://

[piskvorky]

Sounds like a good idea to me. No concrete plans yet -- do you want to implement this?

[petedannemann]

I am working on adding GCS support and wanted to ask a question before I get too deep into the code. I can create a new issue and repost the question there if this is the wrong place to ask it.

Will future smart-open releases support Python 2.7?

[mpenkov]

I don't think so. There is little value of spending effort supporting a language that even the language creators no longer support (Py2.7 end of life is Jan 1 2020).

That said, the library doesn't depend on the Python version _that_ much, so the effort of maintaining support for 2.7 is probably much less than for e.g. gensim.

Why do you ask?

[petedannemann]

GCS support will just require a substantial amount of code to be added (similar to the amount of S3, maybe more since there is not a good mocking framework for GCS) and I wasn't sure how much I should focus on backwards compatibility. We can revisit this once I've actually completed the code and submitted a PR.

[mpenkov]

In general, aim for Py3. It's unlikely you'll finish this before the end of the year, and Py2 will be gone by then.

[petedannemann]

Can we close this?

[mpenkov]

Yes, thank you for following up.