March 2019
Beginner
490 pages
12h 40m
English
We've discussed working directly with the S3 REST API, and this has given us some useful techniques that will allow us to program similar APIs in the future.
In many cases, this will be the only way in which we can interact with a web API. However, some APIs, including AWS, have ready-to-use packages that expose the functionality of the service without having to deal with the complexities of the HTTP API. These packages generally make the code cleaner and simpler, and they should be used for production work if they're available.
The AWS package for connecting from Python is called Boto3. The boto3 package is available in PyPI, so we can install it with pip and with the following command:
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