diff --git a/gcloud/datastore/__init__.py b/gcloud/datastore/__init__.py
index 6f77e05fba51..f3b97b4cd1af 100644
--- a/gcloud/datastore/__init__.py
+++ b/gcloud/datastore/__init__.py
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@
 
 from gcloud import credentials
 from gcloud.datastore import _implicit_environ
+from gcloud.datastore._implicit_environ import get_default_connection
+from gcloud.datastore._implicit_environ import get_default_dataset_id
 from gcloud.datastore.api import allocate_ids
 from gcloud.datastore.api import delete
 from gcloud.datastore.api import get