Add new "quickstart" samples [(googleapis#547)](GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples#547)

Author: jmdobry

samples/snippets/quickstart.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2016 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+def run_quickstart():
+    # [START logging_quickstart]
+    # Imports the Google Cloud client library
+    from google.cloud import logging
+
+    # Instantiates a client
+    logging_client = logging.Client()
+
+    # The name of the log to write to
+    log_name = 'my-log'
+    # Selects the log to write to
+    logger = logging_client.logger(log_name)
+
+    # The data to log
+    text = 'Hello, world!'
+
+    # Writes the log entry
+    logger.log_text(text)
+
+    print('Logged: {}'.format(text))
+    # [END logging_quickstart]
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    run_quickstart()