[waprin]

Thanks for the feedback, not pointy at all.

You're right my original comment was misleading, most of the GAE Standard samples are webapp2, but that's because it comes built-in to the platform and can be specified in the app.yaml, so webapp2 doesn't require people to `pip -t` to vendor Flask into the project. It might be worth revisiting if some of those samples should be in Flask or in both.

1) Guessing you already know you can use Pub/Sub for background tasks, examples here in our Bookshelf app:

https://cloud.google.com/python/getting-started/using-pub-su...

I think Product knows that the developer experience for tasks could be better and closer to Standard, but we haven't announced any public roadmap for task queues on Flexible.

2) I see references to that variable in our docs so I'm not sure where you're saying it's missing. Unfortunately you can't submit PRs for our docs, I wish you could.

Thanks again for the feedback, getting pretty off-topic so maybe good to take any further conversation to #python in GCP Slack?

https://googlecloud-community.slack.com https://gcp-slack.appspot.com/

[jay_kyburz]

No thoughts on the Python 3 issue?

[jonwayne]

(Not GP but also work on Python on GCP)

What was the specific Python 3 issue? I didn't see anything in your post specifically about Python 3.

[jay_kyburz]

>>> Want to use python3? That's cool, use the flexible environment. But it doesn't support taskqueues or many other features.

As far as I know there is no planned support for Python 3 in the standard env. I've been using GAE since 2010 but I'm a little uncomfortable continuing to writing new apps in Python 2.7 when they have a clear end of life date set now.

Given it might take you guys a year or two to support 3 after you decide to do it, then a year or two for me to port my apps over to python 3, my apps might be running for a while past the end of life date for Python 2.7.

Besides, I can't just keep writing 2.7 apps forever, so either I you guys have to update the SE to 3, or I need to start evaluating and comparing the flexible environment to what everybody else offers.