[jira] [Commented] (BEAM-824) Misleading error message when sdk_location is missing in python

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GitHub user pabloem opened a pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/incubator-beam/pull/1200

    [BEAM-824] Fixing error message when sdk_location not provided

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    r: @aaltay can you take a look?
    I tried adding the error strings to `pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound`'s `.args` tuple, but it seems to have special formatting for them so I couldn't add extra information on the error message. Let me know how to change the error message.

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> Misleading error message when sdk_location is missing in python
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>
>                 Key: BEAM-824
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-824
>             Project: Beam
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Pablo Estrada
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> When trying to submit jobs to the Cloud Dataflow service using the Python SDK, the sdk_location should be provided or the serive errors out saying that package google-cloud-dataflow is missing.
> We might want to prompt users to add sdk_location parameter.



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