Python: How to properly set up boto3 and connect to AWS S3?

Question

I walked through the following:

And came up with the file (pract.py) using an IDE:

import boto3

# Let's use Amazon S3
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')

for bucket in s3.buckets.all():
    print(bucket.name)

And ran it but came across the following error even though I installed the boto3:

ImportError: No module named boto3

How can I confirm everything has been installed and configured correctly? What could be the issue?

Thank you in advance and will be sure to accept/upvote answer

WHEN I DO pip install boto3

Can you post the STDOUT from when you ran `pip install boto3`? — Jared, Mar 17 '17 at 19:59
@Jared please take a look at the original post for screenshot — Jo Ko, Mar 17 '17 at 22:43
Are you running your script from within the IDE? Or at the command line? — garnaat, Mar 18 '17 at 11:54

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

2

Did you install via pip? Run the command

pip list

See if the list that is output contains boto3, otherwise, you can follow these instructions:

to install boto3 from the zip file downloaded from this link:

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

Community

answered Mar 17 '17 at 20:04

Preston Martin

Tried it and I see boto3 (1.4.4) yet still getting `ImportError: No module named boto3` – Jo Ko Mar 17 '17 at 21:51
if I were you, I would uninstall boto3 via pip (pip uninstall boto3) and then install the package manually from the link provided. You may have setup your paths incorrectly when you installed python/pip. – Preston Martin Mar 18 '17 at 20:33
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What I did was sudo apt install python3-pip, then pip3 install boto3. By default, my shell environment launches python 3.5 (aliased via .bashrc). I was able to resolve the no module named boto3, and s3 = boto3.resource('s3') – dat789 Feb 23 '18 at 11:14

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