Cloud Function cannot import name 'storage' from 'google.cloud' (unknown location)

Question

2021-12-23T17:33:55.099Zpython-api-request cannot import name 'storage' from 'google.cloud' (unknown location)
cannot import name 'storage' from 'google.cloud' (unknown location)

Why am I getting this error? This is my requirements.txt

# Function dependencies, for example:
# package>=version
pandas
requests
datetime
google-cloud

And my main.py

import requests
import pandas as pd
import datetime
import os
from google.cloud import storage
from dotenv import load_dotenv

It works completely fine in my local machine terminal when I execute my code but why is Cloud Function complaining about my user code?

Answer 1

what worked for me is this:

1 If the package is already installed, you can try upgrading it to the latest version:

pip install --upgrade google-cloud-storage

2 If the issue still persists, you can also try uninstalling and then reinstalling the package:

pip uninstall google-cloud-storage

pip install google-cloud-storage

3 After you have installed or upgraded the package, you can try importing storage from google.cloud again.

Answer 2

Your requirements.txt should have google-cloud-storage rather than just google-cloud. The base doesn't contain the storage package, they are each separately installed but then called from the base package.