If you just want to use the library (not contribute to it), check out the official documentation: http://GoogleCloudPlatform.github.io/gcloud-python/
Start by cloning the repository:
$ git clone git://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-python.git
$ cd gcloud
$ python setup.py develop
Chances are you have some dependency problems, if you're on Ubuntu, try installing the pre-compiled packages:
$ sudo apt-get install python-crypto python-openssl
or try installing the development packages (that have the header files included) and then pip install
the dependencies again:
$ sudo apt-get install python-dev libssl-dev
Make sure you have sphinx
installed and:
$ git clone git://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-python.git
$ pip install sphinx
$ cd gcloud-python/docs
$ make html
Make sure you have nose
installed and:
$ git clone git://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-python.git
$ pip install unittest2 nose
$ nosetests