Jupyter lab syntax error for the same %%bigquery command on the GCP environment

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I am trying to fetch a BigQuery table as a Python dataframe in the GCP’s Jupyter lab environment. It worked perfectly fine and also performed analysis on the dataframe. However, after restarting the kernel, I am unable to recreate the df from the same command. The following is the error I received.

# Loading data from BigQuery to Python as a dataframe

%%bigquery input
SELECT 
    * 
FROM dataset.table1

Error:
    
  File "/tmp/ipykernel_26547/1617235092.py", line 4
    SELECT *
             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Alternatively, I tried to run the same step by opening a new notebook on a BigQuery sample dataset and to my surprise, it worked perfectly.

%%bigquery input
SELECT 
    * 
FROM `bigquery-public-data.samples.natality`
LIMIT 5

Unfortunately, I am unaware of how to share a reproducible code on the GCP platform, as I am fairly new. But, I would love to hear your views and understand the cause of the issue/error.

Asked By: matrixloading

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Answer 1

After banging my head for more than 4 hours, the reason for the error was simple. Comments preceding the %%bigquery magic command are not allowed. Remove those comments and re-run the code block.

The original answer was found in this thread. It was great learning.

Answered By: matrixloading

Jupyter lab syntax error for the same %%bigquery command on the GCP environment

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