This topic describes how to perform basic operations on projects by using PyODPS.

A project is the basic organizational unit of MaxCompute. For more information, see Project.

You can perform the following basic operations on a project:
  • Obtain a project: You can call the get_project() method of a MaxCompute entry object to obtain a specific project. 
    project = o.get_project('my_project')  # Obtain the specified project.
project = o.get_project()              # Obtain the current project.

    To obtain a specific project, you must set the project_name parameter to the name of the project for the get_project() method. If you do not specify a project name for the method, the method returns the current project.

  • Check whether a project exists: You can call the exist_project() method to check whether a specific project exists.