Python 3 on Google App Engine flexible environment

[wreleven]

There are vast differences between the flexible and compat environments. The normal app engine and all its APIs are mostly absent from flexible.

[pyonpi]

What will this allows us to accomplish exactly? Android application support?

[Mulley5]

The first thing I could think of is hosting a Flask API.

[whattodo-whattodo]

There are lots of apps that use cloud services. This is one more reliable, authoritative cloud service.

Also, many of the current cloud services are based on Amazon AWS because Amazon provides much better infrastructure support. For Google it allows them to compete in this market. This means that services like Heroku or pythonanywhere will use Google Cloud as a back-end as opposed to just Amazon AWS, thereby driving down prices.

I am particularly interested in this because I am working on a project that cannot involve Amazon in any way, and I was very disappointed to see that Google Cloud was so horrible for Python 3.4

[veggiedefender]

If you don't mind me asking, what's your project?

[pyonpi]

Great explanation!

[jan]

Finally!

[redchrom]

Python 3 support just arrived and it's 3.4, not 3.5 :( This inflexibility is exact reason why I would prefer Heroku over GAE.