[google-appengine] Re: Use of Pandas in GAE

This topic came up recently again in Reddit . I answered there as well as this similar Q on SO . The bottom line is that this shouldn't be an issue after 2018 when the 2nd-gen App Engine service launched. You don't have to

Re: [google-appengine] Re: App Engine VM-based Backends - Trusted Tester Sign-up

@pdknsk: Correct, this feature has been announced publicly now so thanks for sending a link to the developer docs. To see a summary of all the exciting announcements we made today (2014 Mar 25), we suggest you check the

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Keep it short: Who is forced to leave GAE?

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Srirangan sriran...@gmail.com wrote: The mode of operation seems to be: 1. Attract users with free / very low cost, cloud infrastructure 2. Force them to use Google specific APIs aka lock them in 3. Drastically increase prices giving users only a couple of

Re: [google-appengine] App Inventor and App Engine

hi gary, glad to see that you're an App Inventor user! yes, Google has shut down Labs of which App Inventor was part of, however it has since found a new home at MIT: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-mit-center-for-mobile-learning-with.html you're correct in that TinyWebDB --

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Keep it short: Who is forced to leave GAE?

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Wesley C (Google) wesc+...@google.comwrote: 1. most Google products are free/low cost. App Engine was/is no exception. it was/is also in it's beta or preview period... a time for users to try before you buy. however, unlike a standard API

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Keep it short: Who is forced to leave GAE?

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Angke Chen ang...@gmail.com wrote: If all you said is true, then why the billing in the preview was so cheap for 3 years? BAIT AND SWITCH I call. it usually takes awhile for a product to bake before realizing that it is indeed viable to the market. we

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Team member Google+ profiles

mine is https://plus.google.com/102108625619739868700/posts cheers, -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Core Python Programming, Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 Python Fundamentals, Prentice Hall, (c)2009 http://corepython.com wesley.chun : wesc+api at google.com

Re: [google-appengine] Anyone At OSCon Portland?

Yup, I'm here but leaving tomorrow morning and have dinner plans for tonight, so I won't be able to get together for this trip. As far as other App Engine staff goes, Andrew from the Go team is here if you wanted to reach out to him as he's doing a talk called A Tour of Go. Brian, who is on the

[appengine-java] Higher than expected latencies, 2011 Jul 14 9-11pm PDT/GMT-7

From 9-11pm PDT/GMT-7, a set of Java applications experienced higher than normal latencies. This issue is resolved, but we are currently conducting an investigation and will follow up with more details shortly. - The Google App Engine team -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[appengine-java] URGENT: Upcoming scheduled maintenance: 2011 Jul 14

(If your application uses High Replication datastore, you can ignore this email) Attention App Engine users! We have an urgent scheduled maintenance period coming up *this* Thursday, 2011 Jul 14th. We apologize for the shorter-than-usual notice and will work hard to make sure that more lead-time

[google-appengine] URGENT: Upcoming scheduled maintenance: 2011 Jul 14

(If your application uses High Replication datastore, you can ignore this email) Attention App Engine users! We have an urgent scheduled maintenance period coming up *this* Thursday, 2011 Jul 14th. We apologize for the shorter-than-usual notice and will work hard to make sure that more lead-time

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Maintenance today?

@mars: that's great that you made your app more robust... everyone else should follow! to find out more info, here's a great presentation that we gave at an App Engine meetup happened last year that includes more detail than the official docs:

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Maintenance today?

Developers need to build robustness into their apps to withstand read-only periods so that even if you're not notified, your app will still continue to operate. Pls see the sticky post at the top of this forum on how to do this. Also, emails/posts about read-only periods do *not* come to this

Re: [google-appengine] Re: etags and webkit's response -- any way to disable in GAE?

the problem with using if-none-match with ETags is fixed: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=575 however, if-modified-since is NOT currently supported, so if this is your issue, pls star the follow-up issue: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4838

[google-appengine] Scheduled maintenance read-only downtime

NOTICE: users of the high replication (HR) datastore users are unaffected and do not have maintenance, read-only, nor downtime periods so you can effectively disregard this post. From time-to-time, we have to perform scheduled maintenance on App Engine systems. During these times, the datastore

Re: [google-appengine] Server Error (500) when deploying app

yes, jeff, you are quite correct. maintenance periods affect MS datastore users as well as deployments across all apps. I'll make sure the wording is changed for the next one... thanks for your feedback!! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App

[google-appengine] Announcement: Deprecating Python 2.4 support (App Engine 1.4.3 SDK final release to support it)

Greetings Python Developers! We released version 1.4.3 of the App Engine SDK yesterday. In addition to a number of great features for Python developers, it is also important because it represents the last version of the SDK that will be compatible with Python 2.4. Going forward, we will require

Re: [google-appengine] Handling sudden traffic spikes

henric, i agree with barry and dale: 1. you need to find out the source of these requests. if they are a DoS attack, then you should implement a DoS filter to avoid such traffic hitting your app: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/dos.html 2. you need to implement warmup

Re: [google-appengine] App Engine SDK 1.4.2 is out!

just for posterity, can you guys confirm that register_template_library() worked without any problems in 1.0 1.1 (show original snippet?), and only broke with 1.2? (i was under the impression that it has always taken a module name [rather than a path].) thanks! -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Task Queue Over Improperly Quota

it was something behind the scenes, and you have not been overcharged. apps should be returning to normal soon. we'll provide an update once the dust has settled (keep an eye on Downtime Notify). best regards, -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Core Python

[google-appengine] IRC office hours Feb 2, 2011 transcript

Greetings all, below is the transcript for the office hours last night, 2011 Feb 2 (7-8p PST/10-11p EST). Thanks to Robert Kluin for helping out! See you in a few weeks! cheers, -wesley Status #appengineX [Google App Engine http://code.google.com/appengine/ | App Engine news and articles

Re: [google-appengine] DeadlineExceededError

seems to be coming up for me right now. when did you start to see this problem? we did have a minor datastore latency issue earlier which may have affected some apps and perhaps was the cause, but that fix has been completed now. best regards, -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: [google-appengine] Re: 'module' object has no attribute 'defaulttags'

we're looking for developers who can reproduce this problem for us and can share their source code. pls contact me directly as we'd like to get to the bottom of this one. thx! -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Core Python Programming, Prentice Hall,

Re: [google-appengine] AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'defaulttags'

we're looking for developers who can reproduce this problem for us and can share their source code. pls contact me directly as we'd like to get to the bottom of this one. thx! -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Core Python Programming, Prentice Hall,

Re: [google-appengine] Cannot access to Datastore Admin

greetings, are you using Safari on a Mac? if so, see the ticket below. if not, please add your OS/browser+version pair to this ticket: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4021 -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Core Python Programming,

[appengine-java] Re: 500 Internal Server Error:Unable to update app: Error posting to URL: https://appengine.google.com/api/appversion/clonefiles?

we are continually working on improving the overall reliability, but on some occasions, the system will experience higher than normal latencies within the underlying infrastructure, which may manifest itself to users in the form of upload issues, timeouts (DeadlineExceeded), or other server 500

[google-appengine] Re: appengine.google.com returns 500 error

things should be back to normal now: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-downtime-notify/browse_thread/thread/d2b4ce71754bade5 pls join that group if you haven't already! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post

[google-appengine] App Engine downtime starting soon!

if you aren't aware of the upcoming downtime within a few hours *today*: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-downtime-notify/browse_thread/thread/911a23c2cc4edf57 ... i strongly suggest you subscribe to the downtime-notify list:

Re: [google-appengine] Help -- non-specific InternalError started today!

this is a late reply, but hopefully we did resolve the situation before your demo. here is a link with more info on what happened: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/msg/f014532b4068ba81 thanks! -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Core Python

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Django 1.1 DeadlineExceededError apparently importing modules

are you both still experiencing this problem? when did it start occurring (as close as possible to the real time)? has it stopped yet? if so, also tell us when this problem ended. finally can you both send us all your app IDs? thanks! -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: [google-appengine] logging format string

yes, it is definitely possible to change much of the logging format. there are a couple of things you need to know: 1) the logging.basicConfig() call only works when no root logging handler has been created. by the time your code has executed, it has already been created (by the dev server), so

Re: [google-appengine] To test Application locally

in the development environment, you can request to have the server create a local SQLite database that, if on a shared drive, you can potentially access; however file access/synchronization is up to you. to request the dev server write a SQLite file, use the --use_sqlite flag when starting it up.

[google-appengine] App Engine scheduled downtime NOW

App Engine is in its read-only period NOW for scheduled maintenance. Subscribe to the downtime notify group (link below) to be alerted of these system activities. Reading: http://bit.ly/cqMhGr Subscribe: http://bit.ly/9xO5AJ -- Wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: [google-appengine] Re: App Engine scheduled downtime NOW

App Engine's scheduled downtime completed earlier than expected today. The system went back to full read/write as of 5:53p PDT/1253 GMT/UTC. Please stay tuned to this same channel for next week's scheduled downtime. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [google-appengine] Re: App Engine scheduled downtime NOW

mike, we have this feature already... see the section entitled App Engine Maintenance Behavior on our early warning post last week: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-downtime-notify/browse_thread/thread/a8131355d266b37f related post:

Re: [google-appengine] Re: App Engine scheduled downtime NOW

yes, like i said, it's not documented well. jason's presentation is probably the best doc we have at the moment! we'll try and get something official in the docs soon. no one likes downtimes. i hope that one day we can get rid of them altogether! cheers, -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: [google-appengine] Status page not working

thanks barry, you're right. there's a configuration issue that the team is working on, so we should have it working soon. apologies for crude CSS-less status page! -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Core Python Programming, Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 Python

Re: [google-appengine] Anomaly at Datastore

the status page should be working again... there was a configuration issue this morning regarding that which has been resolved. as far as performance goes, there's an active and ongoing effort to address the increased latency developers are seeing... we'll post updates when we have something

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Hit the 10 application limit.

hi ivan, it's done on a case-by-case basis, but if you can justify it, it makes it easier for us. :-) -wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Core Python Programming, Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 Python Fundamentals, Prentice Hall, (c)2009    http://corepython.com

Re: [google-appengine] Re: OpenId reference implementation

hey all, just an FYI that our team is working on an OpenID article to complement the online docs that have more explanations and example code... stay tuned! -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Core Python Programming, Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 Python

Re: [google-appengine] App Engine having issues again?

we've had high datastore latencies the past hour or so, but things seem to be getting back to normal now as i was able to get to the jacob-6 site, as well as other apps and dashboards. let us know if this isn't the case. -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Core

Re: [google-appengine] Re: 500 errors

we've had high datastore latencies the past hour or so, but things seem to be getting back to normal now as i was able to apps and dashboards with no 500s. let us know if this isn't the case. -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Core Python Programming, Prentice

Re: [google-appengine] Re: How to deploy .Net App on Google App

correct. App Engine currently supports two runtimes: Java and Python. i know this may be disappointing to some of you potential users, but our cloud computing platform runs on the same hardware and networks that power all of Google, and these systems do not run .NET if you *must* run .NET, the

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Task queue can't keep up with load. Suggestions?

thanks for all your feedback on the the current task queue execution (or lack thereof). we have reported this to the engineering team, but to help other users, can one of you file a new issue at http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/entry and everyone affected star it for us? please post

Re: [google-appengine] Re: not able to update

greetings! i'm sorry to hear that you had problems uploading your applications... can you tell us if you're still seeing the same problem? thanks! -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Core Python Programming, Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 Python Fundamentals,

Re: [google-appengine] Has any one noted that postings to this group don't seem to be turning up reliably?

the groups team makes periodic enhancements to their code, so this may be a result of that. when something i expect to be in the discussions list doesn't show up after a short period of time, i just search for the subject and am able to get a link to the thread. -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Sending SMS/text message via app

mobile transaction networks or mobile commerce service providers such as mBlox, OpenMArket, and Ericsson/IPX are really just aggregators that serve as gateways between you and your customers. they maintain relationships with the telcos so you don't have to as that is another ball of wax that you

Re: [google-appengine] Cannot create additional applications

in general, if any of you have problems with SMS verifcation, just fill out this form, and we'll try to help you out: https://appengine.google.com/waitlist/sms_issues chris, check your account now as you should be good-to-go. cheers, -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

[appengine-java] Cron maintenance NOW, Sun 5/2 9-11p PDT

This is an alert that the planned cron maintenance is happening now. If you want to be notified of planned/scheduled downtimes, please subscribe to the read-only list at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-downtime-notify ... you can go there now to subscribe as well as get more

[google-appengine] Cron maintenance NOW, Sun 5/2 9-11p PDT

This is an alert that the planned cron maintenance is happening now. If you want to be notified of planned/scheduled downtimes, please subscribe to the read-only list at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-downtime-notify ... you can go there now to subscribe as well as get more

[appengine-java] App Engine downtime TOMORROW, Wed Apr 28 1-2p PDT

App Engine downtime TOMORROW, Wed Apr 28 1-2p PDT (GMT-7) and same time next Wed, May 5 http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-downtime-notify/browse_thread/thread/4857b46e4e6ff0f9 please join the downtime notification group to be alerted on all such planned downtimes. all apps will go

[google-appengine] App Engine downtime TOMORROW, Wed Apr 28 1-2p PDT

App Engine downtime TOMORROW, Wed Apr 28 1-2p PDT (GMT-7) and same time next Wed, May 5 http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-downtime-notify/browse_thread/thread/4857b46e4e6ff0f9 please join the downtime notification group to be alerted on all such planned downtimes. all apps will go

Re: [google-appengine] Youtube API

YouTube API discussion group here: http://groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata/ Home page for YouTube Direct here: http://www.youtube.com/direct Project page for YouTube Direct API here: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/ytdirect.html Architecture diagram here:

Re: [google-appengine] Email from address

unfortunately at this point, we do not allow arbitrary email addresses as senders unless they are developers or administrators of the app. a few other people have cited that they would like this feature, and if you would as well, please go star the issue and perhaps add your own comment:

Re: [google-appengine] users.get_current_user() returns None

i see several of these errors. if get_current_user() returns None, it really does mean that whoever/whatever access that page isn't logged in. perhaps it's a TaskQueue task or some robot hitting your page. do you recognize the IP addresses in your log entries? for example, one of them is

Re: [google-appengine] Re: What's the fastest way to get the 1st and last item from a result?

agreeing with ryan here that you'll need to do a pair of questions, regardless of whether you do it via a Query or GqlQuery. however, a better question would be: what are you trying to do, and why do you need the first and last keys? non-relational datastores are generally not geared up for doing

Re: [google-appengine] Adobe Flash, SSL and IE

i haven't tested this, but just from the advice given by Adobe, it seems that it could be as simple as altering the headers as described... if 'Pragma' in self.response.headers: # should also check 'pragma' del self.response.headers['Pragma'] self.response.headers['Cache-control'] =

Re: [google-appengine] headless browser

if using Python, you may wish to try mechanize. however, since there is some socket hanky-panky, it will probably require some additional effort to get it to work. here are some SO threads (in reverse chrono order) that should be of interest:

Re: [google-appengine] error using zk framework

greetings! unfortunately, i'm not familiar with that framework to be able to help you out. does anyone in Java App Engine-land use the ZK framework and can assist Jeetu? http://java.dzone.com/announcements/zk-362-supports-google-app

Re: [google-appengine] a strange problem in eval( db.TextProperty )

greetings! the reason you have this problem is that what's in your datastore is '[]'. so when you eval() that, the result is (still) a string and not an empty list -- the single quotes are part of your data!! i suppose eval(eval(stcData.Style)) should work in that case. if your data was

Re: [google-appengine] error

greetings deepak, and welcome to App Engine! it looks like there's something wrong with your JDK setup as the error seems to indicate that it cannot find javac. are you sure you downloaded a JDK and not just the JRE? although netbeans is not officially supported by Google, other Java users have

Re: [google-appengine] To test XMPP Messages without deploying to google server

i don't believe there is any way to test XMPP in either Java or Python from the development server. here is the quote from the documentation: When an app running in the development server sends an XMPP message, the fields of the message are printed to the console, and no message is sent. The

Re: [google-appengine] Broken link

greetings! good catch. please file an issue on the wiki, and someone will take care of it... thanks! http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Core Python Programming, Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 Python

Re: [google-appengine] Re: creating a local copy of application for development

tim is correct. you only *push* to the cloud, never pull. can you imagine what would happen if we made available the ability to download source code? think of all the applications out there... anyone could download anyone else's code, regardless of the effort and time it took to create those

[google-appengine] Re: Increasing Task Queue Quota Limit

generally nothing you can do about those... i would say you can try your code in the development server where they all queue up and you have to execute manually (or flush them as desired). at least this way, you can catch runaway situation before it hits you in production. more info about this

[google-appengine] Re: Access group info?

victor, at this point, i don't believe there is a way to do this as our (App Engine) interaction with Google Apps doesn't really go much beyond making your app be restricted to your Google Apps domain and users: http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/domains.html this would be different, if

[google-appengine] Re: Password For Loading Data Into My Local GAE Instance

greetings jorge, i'm not sure why you're being prompted for the login when trying to upload to the dev server. unfortunately, i'm not in the office this week, but my guess is because you have login: admin in your app.yaml file for remote_api which will require an admin login. this is there for

[google-appengine] Re: App Engine account activation

greetings and welcome to Google App Engine! the email message you're referring to should be sent fairly quickly. pls doublecheck your spam/bulk mail folder to see if it was accidentally delivered there. if you cannot find it, can you cut-n- paste us the error you get when you try to upload your

[google-appengine] Re: Storage for geo-points

generally we cannot change the maximum number of applications you can unless you can demonstrate and justify a legitimate reasons why you need more applications. in other words, it's not impossible but just not likely. if you still want to try this, go fill out the form you can access from:

Re: [google-appengine] Re: groc module

peter et. al, i can't believe i didn't notice this the first time when you asked about your problem several months ago. if you take a careful look at the files, you'll see that your permissions are not set correctly: : -r-xr-x---   1 admin  admin    646 Dec 14 15:22 __init__.py

Re: [google-appengine] Error 500 on Datastore Viewer

Stefano, sorry to hear that you're having problems with viewing your datastore. other users have experienced similar problems, but i think things have stabilized. please continue to report in if you have problems. best regards, -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: [google-appengine] 100 seeks/sec equals how many writes/sec?????

marc, the language is a little tricky here. 风笑雪's response is a closer to reality. brett's argument was for pure disk operations at the lowest level, e.g., he was speaking solely of max possible write operations to disk (and not *entity* writes to disk). it's not even possible to write 100 small

Re: [appengine-java] Re: Error in Production Datastore Explorer

david, thanks for writing back. i wasn't around during the time when they designed this core part of App Engine's data models, but one obvious thing that stands out in my mind as a good reason is the validation of these special fields. if you had automated checks of this data, you would,

Re: [google-appengine] export to csv

it looks like you have some issue with your app.yaml file. please make sure it's of a format similar to the following: application: sandbox-getsense-it version: 1 runtime: python api_version: 1 handlers: - url: /.* script: main.py also, here are two recent threads about creating CSV files:

Re: [google-appengine] Re: spambot from lativa

all, i can let you know that Google does recognize this as an important problem, and that the engineering team is working on it. however, to make for a stronger case, can you all star the current issue that documents this problem? also add your own story or use case in the comments section as

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Can't see the datastore viewer

hi amit, apologies for the late reply. another user had a similar issue, and my recommendation is the same. please follow the advice i give there: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/browse_thread/thread/68c98191e1d3679b best regards, -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: [google-appengine] Re: medical records, hipaa compliance

greetings again everyone, App Engine is currently not HIPAA- nor SAS 70-compliant, so highly sensitive data (HIPAA/PHI data, SSNs, CC numbers, etc.) should not be stored on App Engine. it is not a good match for that type of data at this point in time unless, as the previous poster pointed out,

Re: [google-appengine] not able to deploy application

can you cut-n-paste the error that you get from running appcfg.py so we can see it? thanks! -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Core Python Programming, Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 Python Fundamentals, Prentice Hall, (c)2009 http://corepython.com

Re: [google-appengine] reading 1k entities needs 2 seconds

greetings! yes, fetching items from the datastore is expensive, hence a good reason why you should minimize fetches... using memcache is a great idea! poking through the code, there are a small number of minor optimizations you can make as well: def __getUserKey(user,required=False):  ret =

Re: [google-appengine] spambot from lativa

greetings! unfortunately at this time, we don't have a DoS API. however, what you could do as a workaround is to write a filter at the top-level controller level, and don't let that request get lower into your core functionality. hope this helps! -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: [google-appengine] Application specific configuration vars

devraj, since it's your application, it's probably best that you maintain your own configuration files because those are specific application settings that you're adjusting, not App Engine settings. plus Python's syntax is so straight forward that i've seen many companies simply use a separate

Re: [google-appengine] Performance Issues

can you send us your application ID? we can help take a look at it. also, how was performance yesterday,... and today? just curious if there were any differences, or whether something else changed, like usage, latency, datastore access, etc. thx! -wesley On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Devel63

Re: [google-appengine] Re: exception in min() of python

yep, this behavior is allowed because in Python, min is not a reserved word. unfortunately, this (lack of) restriction easily causes users to overwrite existing data and methods that are popular variable names. for future reference, aside from min, other well-known Python built-ins that are