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**family** -- The family name of the cell to append to.\n\n - **qualifier** -- The qualifier of the cell to append to.\n\n - **append_value** -- The value to append to the cell's value.\n\n- **Raises**\n\n [**TypeError**](https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#TypeError) -- If append_value is not bytes or str.\n\n### *class* google.cloud.bigtable.data.read_modify_write_rules.IncrementRule(family: [str](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str), qualifier: [bytes](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes) \\| [str](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str), increment_amount: [int](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#int) = 1)\n\nBases: `google.cloud.bigtable.data.read_modify_write_rules.ReadModifyWriteRule`\n\nRule to increment a cell's value.\n\n- **Parameters**\n\n - **family** -- The family name of the cell to increment.\n\n - **qualifier** -- The qualifier of the cell to increment.\n\n - **increment_amount** -- The amount to increment the cell's value. Must be between -2\\*\\*63 and 2\\*\\*63 (64-bit signed int).\n\n- **Raises**\n\n - [**TypeError**](https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#TypeError) -- If increment_amount is not an integer.\n\n - [**ValueError**](https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#ValueError) -- If increment_amount is not between -2\\*\\*63 and 2\\*\\*63 (64-bit signed int).\n\n### *class* google.cloud.bigtable.data.read_modify_write_rules.ReadModifyWriteRule(family: [str](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str), qualifier: [bytes](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes) \\| [str](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str))\n\nBases: [`abc.ABC`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/abc.html#abc.ABC)\n\nAbstract base class for read-modify-write rules."]]