From 62389e2f525974ca0fb5fb53e18ca4db70b4357b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gelioz <>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 16:51:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Avoid unnecessary GCS storage.buckets.get permission

---
 .gitignore        | 3 +++
 smart_open/gcs.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 04e894c6..485c6929 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -60,5 +60,8 @@ target/
 # PyCharm
 .idea/
 
+# VSCode
+.vscode/
+
 # env files
 .env
diff --git a/smart_open/gcs.py b/smart_open/gcs.py
index 6b27e31e..7c882e40 100644
--- a/smart_open/gcs.py
+++ b/smart_open/gcs.py
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ def __init__(
         if client is None:
             client = google.cloud.storage.Client()
 
-        self._blob = client.get_bucket(bucket).get_blob(key)  # type: google.cloud.storage.Blob
+        self._blob = client.bucket(bucket).get_blob(key)  # type: google.cloud.storage.Blob
 
         if self._blob is None:
             raise google.cloud.exceptions.NotFound('blob %s not found in %s' % (key, bucket))

From a459c84966094349de302ac60921b6d335f49738 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Penkov <m@penkov.dev>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 14:36:56 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update CHANGELOG.md

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 65399928..47dd10fa 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Unreleased
 
+  - Bypass unnecessary GCS storage.buckets.get permission (PR [#516](https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/smart_open/pull/516), [@gelioz](https://github.com/gelioz))
+
 # 2.1.0, 1 July 2020
 
   - Azure storage blob support ([@nclsmitchell](https://github.com/nclsmitchell) and [@petedannemann](https://github.com/petedannemann))