Deploying a python web app to Google Cloud.

This is the place to start if you already have some experience in python, virtual env, flask. If you want to have some hands-on on how to deploy a simple python based flask app in Google Cloud. please refer to the following link.

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/getting-started/python-standard-env

The link provides all the instructions to get your python app up and running.
Here are some points to be noted when you are doing this activity.

The standard environment only works with python2.7 and not with python 3.5 and above. If you have already installed python3.5, please perform an alternate install of python2.7 as well.
If you're an active developer who had been developing using python3.5 and don't want to modify the python3.5 to python symlink on your machine, please perform the above testing activity in a python virtual env. You need to create the virtualenv folder using python2.7 explicitly using the following command
```
$ virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2.7 my_project
```
If you're performing this activity on a linux machine running behind a proxy. You can unset the proxies in the virtual environment for local testing. Else you will get an HTTP 500 error.
When you are trying to deploy the app, please do it from outside the virtualenv cause you will need the proxy settings to push the app content to the google cloud.

Voila, you have your first flask/jinja2 based python app deployed on GAE and it's up and running. Happy Coding! Cheers!

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