MRAB wrote, on February 05, 2017 4:34 PM > > On 2017-02-06 00:08, Deborah Swanson wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > Well, I really don't know the first thing about Macs, but it looks > > like you got the download and environment variable right, at least > > it's not complaining about that. > > > > Looks like the current problem is with the parameters > you're passing > > to the build() function. I don't have the apiclient module > installed, > > so I can't look at it for myself, but here is the critical error: > > > > build() takes at most 2 positional arguments (3 given) > > > > This means that you've given too many parameters to > build(). I'm a bit > > confused because your youtube_search()code is calling build() with: > > > > youtube = build(YOUTUBE_API_SERVICE_NAME, YOUTUBE_API_VERSION, > > developerKey=DEVELOPER_KEY), > > > > which is passing 3 arguments, > > That's 2 positional arguments and 1 keyword argument.
Well, I said I'm not an experienced python coder, and in this case I've always seen 'self' as the unspecified argument, but it could be a key argument. Would be nice to see all of the code and messages. And getting a look at the build() function would tell it all. > > and you're using > > > > youtube = build(YOUTUBE_API_SERVICE_NAME, > > GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS, YOUTUBE_API_VERSION, > > developerKey=DEVELOPER_KEY), > > > > which is passing 4 arguments. > > That's 3 positional arguments and 1 keyword argument. > > > In either case the error you're getting is > > complaining that build() only takes 2 arguments, so it's > not matching > > up with either youtube_search's code or your call to build(). > > > > It's expecting at most 2 positional arguments. Any additional > arguments > would have to be keyword arguments. > > [snip] > If you're right that the error message says build() is expecting 2 positional arguments and 1 keyword argument, then simply dropping the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS argument might just work. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list