Possible to create BigQuery Table/Schema without populating with Data?

Question

Is it possible to create a Table schema without first populating it with data? Preferably using Google's python client. Google's documentation does not seem to provide a clear yes or no answer. They suggest creating a table with a query, but this is both non-intuitive and again, not highly documented:

Answer 1

In python you can run an insert job on the tables API endpoint and that will create an empty table as it's documented here you need to supply a TableResource

project_id = <my project>
dataset_id = <my dataset>
table_id = 'table_001'
dataset_ref = {'datasetId': dataset_id,
               'projectId': project_id}
table_ref = {'tableId': table_id,
             'datasetId': dataset_id,
             'projectId': project_id}
schema_ref = {<schema comes here>}
table = {'tableReference': table_ref,
         'schema': schema_ref}
table = bigquery.tables().insert(
    body=table, **dataset_ref).execute(http)

**dataset_ref is a python trick to copy the contents to named arguments

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