Stopped depending on the google-api-python-client package

Author: Ark-kun

google/cloud/aiplatform/initializer.py

@@ -170,6 +170,10 @@ def project(self) -> str:
                     .execute()["projectId"]
                 )
                 self._project = project_id
+            except ImportError:
+                logging.debug(
+                    f"Need google-api-python-client to convert project number to project ID."
+                )
             except Exception as e:
                 logging.warning(f"Error converting project number to project ID: {e}")
             return self._project

setup.py

@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@
         "packaging >= 14.3",
         "google-cloud-storage >= 1.32.0, < 2.0.0dev",
         "google-cloud-bigquery >= 1.15.0, < 3.0.0dev",
-        "google-api-python-client >= 2.29",  # for API discovery
     ),
     extras_require={
         "full": full_extra_require,