hjtran commented on issue #37445:
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/37445#issuecomment-3937534699

   Whoops, sorry for that typo and confusion. Thanks for clarifying!
   
   On Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 3:48 PM Shunping Huang ***@***.***>
   wrote:
   
   > *shunping* left a comment (apache/beam#37445)
   > <https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/37445#issuecomment-3937089947>
   >
   > I want to add some clarification here. Hopefully, it can give contributors
   > some idea to look at.
   >
   >    -
   >
   >    First, the prefix of GCS Path in the original issue description may be
   >    incorrect. I think we only consider URL starting with "gs://" as a GCS 
path.
   >
   >    
https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/1052216416f4d77325f77e0af80fc0ee98979e14/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/gcp/gcsfilesystem.py#L54-L57
   >
   >    Therefore, the following code can run successfully if gcp extra is
   >    installed. (The proposed behavior)
   >
   >    >>> from apache_beam.io import filesystems>>> 
fs=filesystems.FileSystems.get_filesystem("gs://blah")>>> 
print(fs)<apache_beam.io.gcp.gcsfilesystem.GCSFileSystem object at 0x1195a3290>
   >
   >    However, the following code failed even with gcp extra, because
   >    "gcs://" is never recognized.
   >
   >    >>> from apache_beam.io import filesystems>>> 
fs=filesystems.FileSystems.get_filesystem("gcs://blah")ValueError: Unable to 
get filesystem from specified path, please use the correct path or ensure the 
required dependency is installed, e.g., pip install apache-beam[gcp]. Path 
specified: gcs://blah
   >
   >    -
   >
   >    Second, when gcp extra is absent, we see the error in the previously
   >    successful code
   >
   >    >>> from apache_beam.io import filesystems>>> 
fs=filesystems.FileSystems.get_filesystem("gs://blah")Failed to import 
GCSFileSystem; loading of this filesystem will be skipped. Error details: 
cannot import name 'storage' from 'google.cloud' (unknown location)
   >    ...ValueError: Unable to get filesystem from specified path, please use 
the correct path or ensure the required dependency is installed, e.g., pip 
install apache-beam[gcp]. Path specified: gs://blah
   >
   >    This should be the issue the contributor would need to fix.
   >
   >    The above error is raised at
   >
   >    
https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/1052216416f4d77325f77e0af80fc0ee98979e14/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/filesystems.py#L64-L70
   >    We need to figure out why importing GCSFileSystem failed if there is
   >    no gcp extra installed and so on.
   >
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