read will return bytes. At least for Python 3, if you want to return a string, you have to decode using the right encoding: import boto3 s3 = boto3.resource(‘s3’) obj = s3.Object(bucket, key) obj.get()[‘Body’].read().decode(‘utf-8’)
Use the response contained within the exception. Here is an example: import boto3 from botocore.exceptions import ClientError try: iam = boto3.client(‘iam’) user = iam.create_user(UserName=”fred”) print(“Created user: %s” % user) except ClientError as e: if e.response[‘Error’][‘Code’] == ‘EntityAlreadyExists’: print(“User already exists”) else: print(“Unexpected error: %s” % e) The response dict in the exception will contain the … Read more
One way to see the contents would be: for my_bucket_object in my_bucket.objects.all(): print(my_bucket_object)