Im trying to grab a list of subnets from aws, I have a working version for VPC that I have modified: I keep getting: subnets = list(ec2.Subnet.filters(Filters=filters)) AttributeError: ‘function’ object has no attribute ‘filters’ From everything im reading and other examples this shoul…
Tag: boto3
How to access an item from S3 using boto3 and read() its contents
I have a method that fetches a file from a URL and converts it to OpenCV image I would like to use boto3 to access an object from s3 bucket and convert it to an image just like above method does. However, I’m not sure how to access an item from a bucket using boto3 and then further how to
How to update metadata of an existing object in AWS S3 using python boto3?
boto3 documentation does not clearly specify how to update the user metadata of an already existing S3 Object. Answer It can be done using the copy_from() method –
Wait for complete deletion of a DynamoDB table using boto3
I need to delete a dynamodb table, and wait until it is completely removed. How can I check this? boto3 api expose a method get_waiter to wait for certain events, but it is not well documented. Can I use it for this purpose? Which would be the event name, or maybe handle a ResourceNotFoundException Answer Aft…
Boto3: grabbing only selected objects from the S3 resource
I can grab and read all the objects in my AWS S3 bucket via and then would give me the path within the bucket. Is there a way to filter beforehand for only those files respecting a certain starting path (a directory in the bucket) so that I’d avoid looping over all the objects and filtering later? Answe…
Retrieving subfolders names in S3 bucket from boto3
Using boto3, I can access my AWS S3 bucket: Now, the bucket contains folder first-level, which itself contains several sub-folders named with a timestamp, for instance 1456753904534. I need to know the name of these sub-folders for another job I’m doing and I wonder whether I could have boto3 retrieve t…
Exception in Boto3 – botocore.exceptions.EndpointConnectionError
When trying to connect to a database with this python code to test the connection. I am getting this error thrown at me. The strange part is that the connection was working earlier in the day and then at it stopped working the same thing happened to me yesterday at the same time so I am assuming it is a
Unable to install boto3
I have trouble installing boto3 inside a virtual environment. I have done what the document says. First I activated virtual environment. then I did a: Now I enter python But if I import boto, it works Why does it install boto 2.38 when I installed boto3. I tried closing the terminal and re-opened it. Should I…
How to choose an AWS profile when using boto3 to connect to CloudFront
I am using the Boto 3 python library, and want to connect to AWS CloudFront. I need to specify the correct AWS Profile (AWS Credentials), but looking at the official documentation, I see no way to specify it. I am initializing the client using the code: client = boto3.client(‘cloudfront’) However,…
Override S3 endpoint using Boto3 configuration file
OVERVIEW: I’m trying to override certain variables in boto3 using the configuration file (~/aws/confg). In my use case I want to use fakes3 service and send S3 requests to the localhost. EXAMPLE: In boto (not boto3), I can create a config in ~/.boto similar to this one: And the client can successfully p…