quickstart.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

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def run_quickstart():
    # [START datastore_quickstart]
    # Imports the Google Cloud client library
    from google.cloud import datastore

    # Instantiates a client
    datastore_client = datastore.Client()

    # The kind of the entity to retrieve
    kind = 'Person'
    # The name/ID of the entity to retrieve
    name = 'Bob'
    # The Datastore key for the entity
    task_key = datastore_client.key(kind, name)

    # Retrieves the entity
    entity = datastore_client.get(task_key)

    print('Fetched entity: {}'.format(entity.key.name))
    # [END datastore_quickstart]


if __name__ == '__main__':
    run_quickstart()