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id: google-cloud-spanner
version: "3.69.1"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# google-cloud-spanner — Google Cloud Spanner API client library

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install google-cloud-spanner
uv add google-cloud-spanner
poetry add google-cloud-spanner

## Description

Python Client for Cloud Spanner
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`Cloud Spanner`_: Cloud Spanner is a managed, mission-critical, globally consistent and
scalable relational database service.

- `Client Library Documentation`_
- `Product Documentation`_

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.. _Cloud Spanner: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/
.. _Client Library Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/spanner/latest/summary_overview
.. _Product Documentation:  https://cloud.google.com/spanner/

Quick Start
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In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. `Select or create a Cloud Platform project.`_
2. `Enable billing for your project.`_
3. `Enable the Cloud Spanner.`_
4. `Set...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Python client library for Google Cloud Spanner, a managed globally-consistent relational database service, enabling transaction-based SQL queries, DML operations, and mutations through a PEP-249 connection API.

Verdict: Production-ready, actively maintained client library for Cloud Spanner with no known vulnerabilities and permissive licensing. Suitable for applications requiring globally-consistent relational database access on GCP, provided you have the necessary cloud project setup and authentication in place.

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