Bring your towel and join one of the fastest growing data communities. Welcome to our second-generation open source orchestration platform, a completely rethought approach to dataflow automation.

Prefect Community

I’ve got a question related to Snowflake and creating a credentials block.

I’m attempting to use a private key, and can’t seem to get anything to work.
Question:
What is the right format for specifying the private key?

I’ve tried a multiline string in the format of:
```------BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----

-----END PRIVATE KEY-----```
I’ve tried taking the content between the blocks and making a long one line string and removing the `\n` characters.

Each time I get the same InvalidPemFormat error.

To answer my own question, multiline string is the way to go. Be careful of extra newlines.

Good:
```key = """-----BEGIN PRIVATE_KEY
.
."""```
Bad:
```key = """
-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY
.
.""""```