Skip to main content

The AWS SDK for Python

Project description

Build Status Code Coverage Read the docs Version

Boto3 is the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Software Development Kit (SDK) for Python, which allows Python developers to write software that makes use of services like Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2. You can find the latest, most up to date, documentation at Read the Docs, including a list of services that are supported.

Quick Start

First, install the library and set a default region:

$ pip install boto3

Next, set up credentials (in e.g. ~/.aws/credentials):

[default]
aws_access_key_id = YOUR_KEY
aws_secret_access_key = YOUR_SECRET

Then, set up a default region (in e.g. ~/.aws/config):

[default]
region=us-east-1

Then, from a Python interpreter:

>>> import boto3
>>> s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
>>> for bucket in s3.buckets.all():
        print(bucket.name)

Development

Getting Started

Assuming that you have Python and virtualenv installed, set up your environment and install the required dependencies like this instead of the pip install boto3 defined above:

$ git clone https://github.com/boto/boto3.git
$ cd boto3
$ virtualenv venv
...
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ pip install -e .

Running Tests

You can run tests in all supported Python versions using tox. Be default, it will run all of the unit tests, but you can also specify your own nosetests options. Note that this requires that you have all supported versions of Python installed, otherwise you must pass -e or run the nosetests command directly:

$ tox
$ tox tests/unit/test_session.py
$ tox -e py26,py33 tests/integration

You can also run individual tests with your default Python version:

$ nosetests tests/unit

Generating Documentation

Sphinx is used for documentation. You can generate HTML locally with the following:

$ pip install -r requirements-docs.txt
$ cd docs
$ make html

Project details


Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

boto3-1.1.1.tar.gz (68.1 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

boto3-1.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (95.9 kB view details)

Uploaded Python 2 Python 3

File details

Details for the file boto3-1.1.1.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: boto3-1.1.1.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 68.1 kB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No

File hashes

Hashes for boto3-1.1.1.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 7d19d05222489f9f6629ca608881ee12e43d1e9e70f40dedb5884cfa34b879fe
MD5 35ce85605bdb5d0c538921c01e928d2b
BLAKE2b-256 d3becf4503fe0ff27d60abe30ef490739172d3f18e9e677456ac062b074f75b8

See more details on using hashes here.

File details

Details for the file boto3-1.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.

File metadata

File hashes

Hashes for boto3-1.1.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 5d8afd683b683589114c4f6064b87a12d6890f01ac480da8e89020ccdde04b24
MD5 f2e4a5ad1adb979afcab402e2a3b3b9d
BLAKE2b-256 2ab01e9e1c81ccbfb43eb0443123fbe0bd391d4299fde6bdc0b45cb75d1d2bc6

See more details on using hashes here.

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page