Cloning git in python

Question

I am trying to clone a git repo in Python but I am getting an invalid syntax error. Here is my code so far:

import pickle
import os
if not os.path.exists('secret_petfinder_credentials.pkl'):
Petfinder={}
Petfinder['Consumer Key']='mykey'
Petfinder['Consumer Secret']='mysecret'
   with open('secret_petfinder_credentials.pkl','wb') as f: 
       pickle.dump(Petfinder, f)
else: 
   Petfinder=pickle.load(open('secret_petfinder_credentials.pkl','rb'))
!pip install petfinder
git clone git://github.com/gtaylor/petfinder-api.git`

FYI: to properly post code block mark it and use `{}` button — Marcin Orlowski, Jul 23 '17 at 18:34
Well clearly those last two lines are indeed not valid Python. What makes you think they would be? — Daniel Roseman, Jul 23 '17 at 18:39

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 24 '17 at 04:49

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If you really need to clone from your python script, consider GitPython, and its clone_from() function:

from git import Repo

Repo.clone_from(git_url, repo_dir)

Or pygit2, and its clone_repository() function.

answered Jul 24 '17 at 04:49

VonC

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I did the following: `from git import Repo Repo.clone_from('https://github.com/gtaylor/petfinder-api', 'repo_dir1') import petfinder` And am getting an error: Missing parenthesis in call to 'print' – Sam P Jul 24 '17 at 13:55
@SamP Check your version of Python: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25445440/6309, https://stackoverflow.com/a/25445440/6309. It should probably be python 2 for the code/example to work. – VonC Jul 25 '17 at 06:17

Cloning git in python

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