BlobServiceClientUploadSample.py

# The below script is a sample piece of code that helps you connecting to an BLOB Storage account using Azure SDK for Python
# There are different authentication mechanism for making the connection and I have made use of connection string
# Upload Blob operation (with overwrite if exists) and listing of blobs
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#IMPORT THE LIBRARIES INTO YOUR FILE
import os
from azure.storage.blob import BlobServiceClient

#DECLERATION OF VARIABLES
AZURE_STORAGE_CONTAINER_NAME = 'testcontainer1'

#SETTING UP CONFIGURATION STRING
connection_string="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"

#INSTANTIATE A BLOBSERVICECLIENT
blob_service_client = BlobServiceClient.from_connection_string(connection_string)

#PRINTING LIST OF CONTAINERS
containers = list(blob_service_client.list_containers(logging_enable=True))
print("{} containers.".format(len(containers)))

container_name = "AZURE_STORAGE_CONTAINER_NAME"

#CREATE A FILE IN LOCAL MACHINE
local_path = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
local_file_name = "SampleText" + ".txt"
upload_file_path = os.path.join(local_path, local_file_name)

#WRITING DATA TO FILE
file = open(upload_file_path, 'w')
file.write("This is new Text!")
file.close()

#CREATE A BLOB CLIENT USING THE LOCAL FILE NAME AS NAME FOR THE BLOB
blob_client = blob_service_client.get_blob_client(container=container_name, blob=local_file_name)

print("\nUploading to Azure Storage as blob:\n\t" + local_file_name)

#UPLOAD THE CREATED FILE; OVERWRITE OPTION SET AS TRUE WILL OVERWRITE THE EXISTING FILE
with open(upload_file_path, "rb") as data:
    blob_client.upload_blob(data, overwrite=True)

#INSTANTIATE A CONTAINER CLIENT
container_client = blob_service_client.get_container_client(AZURE_STORAGE_CONTAINER_NAME)

#LIST THE BLOBS IN A CONTAINER
print("\nList of Blobs in Container are :\n\t" )
blob_list = container_client.list_blobs()
for blob in blob_list:
   print("\t" + blob.name)