import requests on AWS Lambda for python 3.8

Question

The trick to use requests from botocore.vendored no longer works with Python 3.8 on AWS Lambda which I assume includes the latest botocore-1.13. This version no longer embeds requests. Importing it works but the package is actually empty.

[ERROR] AttributeError: module 'botocore.vendored.requests' has no attribute 'post'

Is there a way to import requests on native lambda? It's a basic and it would be a pain to go through the process of packaging the code for very simple Lambda.

Alternatively, anyone has another trick to call API-Gateway without requests?

Answer 1

Oh wow, I guess this is a 'breaking-change' on AWS Lambda that we rarely see.

AWS have warned about this before, there's a few options:

• Use Serverless Framework and that serverless-python-requirements plugin
• See if the Python3.7 Lambda Layer for requests from this repo works for Python3.8
• Package it yourself using lambci for python3.8