Boost BigQuery with Python: Managed Python UDFs now generally available

BigQuery now supports Managed Python UDFs, allowing data scientists and engineers to execute custom Python code directly inside BigQuery using standard SQL queries or BigQuery DataFrames. This feature provides flexibility, tight external API integration, and fully managed and serverless performance. With this release, Python UDFs are fully supported for production enterprise workloads and integrated into BigQuery's billing SKUs. Data practitioners can now access the vast Python ecosystem, including popular libraries like NumPy and pandas, directly in their SQL select statements. To get started, create a Python UDF that utilizes a popular Python package, such as beautifulsoup, to process and clean data.