Hello readers, this is a different article than the regular one. Today I was facing an issue to install Google Cloud SDK on windows so after spending a few hours on it, I succeeded. So I decided to share it with you.

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I am trying to install Google Cloud SDK from the link below in windows system (For me it’s Windows 10 Pro).

Download Link: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/quickstart-windows

During the installation of it I received an error as below.

Error:

To use the Google Cloud SDK, you must have Python installed and on your PATH.
As an alternative, you may also set the CLOUDSDK_PYTHON environment variable
to the location of your Python executable.

Below is the same error while executing the command in Google Cloud SDK Shell.

Solution:

Download the Python from https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2714/ and installed latest Python @2.7.14 (Google SDK doesn’t work with Python 3)

Now set the CLOUDSDK_PYTHON environment variable to the location of your Python executable. The default path to executable is C:\Python27\python.exe for me.

At last restart the system and try to install the Google Cloud SDK.

That’s it. Hope this will work for you!

Thank you for reading! Happy Coding!