Using Boto to connect to S3 with Python

Question

I'm trying to access AWS using Boto, and it's not working. I've installed Boto, and the boto.cfg in /etc. Here's my code:

import requests, json
import datetime
import hashlib
import boto

conn = boto.connect_s3()

Here's the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "boto.py", line 4, in <module>
    import boto
  File "/home/mydir/public_html/boto.py", line 6, in <module>
    conn = boto.connect_s3()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'connect_s3'

What the hell? This isn't complicated.

Answer 1

It looks like the file you're working on is called boto.py. I think what's happening here is that your file is importing itself--Python looks for modules in the directory containing the file doing the import before it looks on your PYTHONPATH. Try changing the name to something else.

Answer 2

Use the Connection classes.

e.g.

from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection
from boto.sns.connection import SNSConnection
from boto.ses.connection import SESConnection

def connect_s3(self):
  return S3Connection(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)

def connect_sns(self):
  return SNSConnection(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)

def connect_ses(self):
  return SESConnection(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)