def get_metadata()

in authenticating-users/main.py [0:0]

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def get_metadata(item_name):
    """Returns a string with the project metadata value for the item_name.
    See https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/storing-retrieving-metadata for
    possible item_name values.
    """
    import requests

    endpoint = 'http://metadata.google.internal'
    path = '/computeMetadata/v1/project/'
    path += item_name
    response = requests.get(
        '{}{}'.format(endpoint, path),
        headers={'Metadata-Flavor': 'Google'}
    )
    metadata = response.text
    return metadata