GAE_USE_SOCKETS_HTTPLIB interferes with Google Api Python Client

• Operating System version: OSX 10.12.6
• Firebase SDK version: Firebase Admin Python SDK 2.4.0

When using the SDK within an App Engine environment, the docs require you do some extra configuration. Within that configuration you have to add the following variables to your app.yaml

libraries:
- name: ssl
  version: latest

env_variables:
  GAE_USE_SOCKETS_HTTPLIB: 'true'

However, this introduces an error within app engine that breaks any requests that have to do with the google api python client library. Through some research I found this question that explains my issue.

Is there a workaround that permits the use GAE_USE_SOCKETS_HTTPLIB in order for firebase to function properly as well as being able to use google api client library within app engine such as:

from apiclient.discovery import build
service = build('calendar', 'v3')
# etc...

I am fairly new to python, I apologize if this questions seems out of place.

Thank you in advance for you feedback.

[giuseppecrj]

Removing the environment variable did the trick for both development and production. Thank you so much for your help and the detailed explanation @hiranya911

[hiranya911]

Thanks @giusepperj. I will update our documentation, so that step is no longer mentioned as required.