Summary
We used to have a Tableau server instance that we had a few python scripts doing intermittent and ad-hoc extracts against -- distributing dashes to google drives, emails, that kind of thing across various filters. This all worked ~reasonably well just off the one set of user/password credentials. When we migrated to Tableau Cloud, we migrated those to use Tableau's PAT tokens instead. The way Tableau has implemented PAT is, kindly, puzzling. Less kindly: idiotic. First, no more using one set ...