Python and AWS Cookbook

Chapter 1. General Info

A Quick Note About Python

The examples in this book use Python 2.7.1, although they should work with any version of Python from 2.5.x to 2.7.x. The boto library has not yet been ported and fully tested on Python 3.x, although there are plans to do so in the near future.

All versions of Python, in both source form and precompiled for many popular platforms, can be found at http://python.org.

Installing boto

The examples in this book require boto version 2.1 or later. There are several options available to you when it comes to installing boto.

Download and Install from github.com

The boto project uses github as its source code repository. You can clone our github repo locally and install boto from that cloned distribution. By doing so, you will always have access to the very latest changes in boto. That includes the newest features, as well as the newest bugs, so you will have to decide if this intrepid path is for you or not:

	% git clone https://github.com/boto/boto
	% cd boto
	% sudo python setup.py install

Manually Download and Install boto

The Python Cheese Shop is the official repository of Python packages. If you go to the Cheese Shop (also known as PyPI) and search for boto, you will see a page like Figure 1-1, although it should be for version 2.1, not 2.0.

Figure 1-1. boto Page on PyPI

Clicking on the boto-2.1.tar.gz link will download the compressed tarball containing ...