Python: How do I resolve oauth2client.client.ApplicationDefaultCredentialsError: The Application Default Credentials are not available?

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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.

 > 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.

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