Qubole Data Service Python SDK
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A Python module that provides the tools you need to authenticate with, and use the Qubole Data Service API.


Installation
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Run the following command (may need to do this as root):

    $ python setup.py install

This should place a command line utility `qds.py` somewhere in your path

    $ which qds.py
    /usr/bin/qds.py


Alternate Virtualenv Installation
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Alternatively, if you use virtualenv, you can do this:

    $ cd qds-sdk-py
    $ virtualenv venv
    $ source venv/bin/activate
    $ python setup.py install

Which will install `qds.py` within your virtualenv.


CLI
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`qds.py` allows running Hive, Hadoop, Pig, Presto and Shell commands against QDS. Users can run commands synchronously - or submit a command and check its status.

    $ qds.py -h  # will print detailed usage

Examples:

1. run a hive query and print the results

        $ qds.py --token 'xxyyzz' hivecmd run --query "show tables"
        $ qds.py --token 'xxyyzz' hivecmd run --script_location /tmp/myquery
        $ qds.py --token 'xxyyzz' hivecmd run --script_location s3://my-qubole-location/myquery

2. pass in api token from bash environment variable

        $ export QDS_API_TOKEN=xxyyzz

3. run the example hadoop command

        $ qds.py hadoopcmd run streaming -files 's3n://paid-qubole/HadoopAPIExamples/WordCountPython/mapper.py,s3n://paid-qubole/HadoopAPIExamples/WordCountPython/reducer.py' -mapper mapper.py -reducer reducer.py -numReduceTasks 1 -input 's3n://paid-qubole/default-datasets/gutenberg' -output 's3n://example.bucket.com/wcout'

4. check the status of command # 12345678

        $ qds.py hivecmd check 12345678
        {"status": "done", ... }


SDK API
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An example Python application needs to do the following:

1. Set the api_token:

        from qds_sdk.qubole import Qubole

        Qubole.configure(api_token='ksbdvcwdkjn123423')

2. Use the Command classes defined in commands.py to execute commands. To run Hive Command:

        from qds_sdk.commands import *

        hc=HiveCommand.create(query='show tables')
        print "Id: %s, Status: %s" % (str(hc.id), hc.status)

`example/mr_1.py` contains a Hadoop Streaming example
