from google.cloud import bigquery
from google.cloud.bigquery import Table

# Standard SQL (works fine)
# SELECT * FROM `google.com:my-project.mydataset.mytable` LIMIT 1

# Works fine
table = Table.from_string('my-project.mydataset.mytable')

# Fails
table = Table.from_string('google.com:my-project.mydataset.mytable')

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/tmp/vv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/cloud/bigquery/table.py", line 815, in from_string
    return cls(TableReference.from_string(full_table_id))
  File "/tmp/vv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/cloud/bigquery/table.py", line 246, in from_string
    "got {}".format(table_id)
ValueError: Too many parts in table_id. Must be a fully-qualified table ID in standard SQL format. e.g. "project.dataset.table", got google.com:my-project.mydataset.mytable