AWS SDK for Python (Boto 3) examples

These are examples for the AWS SDK for Python (Boto 3) public documentation.

Prerequisites

To build and run the Python examples, you'll need:

• Python 3
• pip
• AWS SDK for Python (Boto 3)
• AWS credentials

For instructions on installing the AWS SDK for Python (Boto 3) and setting up credentials, see Boto 3 Docs Quickstart.

Running the examples

Many of the examples are written for execution in a command prompt window or Python console.

For example, to run the s3.py example in a command prompt window, run the following.

python -m s3 bucket_name region

Documentation

For detailed documentation for the AWS SDK for Python (Boto 3), see the following:

• AWS SDK for Python (Boto 3) Documentation
• Boto 3 Docs Quickstart

Contributing

Use pylint to verify that your code follows the coding standards for the repository, including the custom pylint rules found in tools/pylintrc. To run pylint with this configuration, use the --rcfile option.

For example, to check s3.py, run the following.

pylint s3.py --rcfile=../../tools/pylintrc