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Adventures with a Google Python Client API

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I've been screwing around with Google's Sheets API client library. I've finally produced something barely accomplishing: a Python script that reads the values from a spreadsheet I'm using as the temporary machine learning training and testing data source for The Companions Project.


The sheet that will house companion training data
Success in the PyCharm console

Sure, I don't know any practical information on how to implement machine learning, but I'll get there. I at least know the basic process: get data, format data/create labels, train model, test model, and repeat training and testing until model is sufficient for job.

In other news, I contacted my likely computer science teacher for next year, Mr. Burton, about the club I'll have to make. Obviously, he didn't respond as it's the weekend, but I'm awaiting his response.

Today, I've finally figured out why The Companions Project's deployment to Google App Engine showed GET errors when going to the site. Turns out a small tag was the cause: secure: always. In an app deployed to GAE, the app.yaml file tells GAE how to handle requests. The "always" part of the tag means that the server will force HTTPS to serve static resources, something I am still in the process of setting up. In fact, that's what I spent four hours trying to do today before I gave up. It turns out GAE doesn't automatically provision HTTPS certificates for your custom domain, so I had to search website after website to find a guide that told me how to manually create the certificates with certbot.
Site note: I find it odd Firebase Hosting automatically provisions HTTPS certificates while Google App Engine doesn't even provide that option. Perhaps it's because Firebase is supposed to be a fully integrated platform for developers and Google Cloud Platform is sort of WYSIWYG. I thought Google really wanted to encrypt the web, so automatically issuing HTTPS certificates for App Engine apps would really help with that goal.

I should really finish my homework now, but I suppose today's troubles are tomorrow's history.
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