Most of the how-to guides require to:

✅ Create a python virtual environment
✅ Install the Bigdata.com SDK bigdata-client
✅ Initialise environment variables

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Create a python virtual environment

Open the terminal and create a virtual environment with the following command:

$ python3 -m venv bigdata_venv

Activate the virtual environment, every time you want to use it:

$ source ./bigdata_venv/bin/activate

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Install the Bigdata.com SDK [bigdata-client]

Let’s install bigdata-client within the environment bigdata_venv.

(bigdata_venv) $ pip install bigdata-client

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Initialise environment variables

Export the Bigdata.com credentials, so the Bigdata class can use it

export BIGDATA_USERNAME=<YOUR_USERNAME>
export BIGDATA_PASSWORD=<YOUR_PASSWORD>

Export a maximum number of parallel threads:

export BIGDATA_MAX_PARALLEL_REQUESTS=50