check if a key exists in a bucket in s3 using boto3

Question

I would like to know if a key exists in boto3. I can loop the bucket contents and check the key if it matches.

But that seems longer and an overkill. Boto3 official

Answer 1

There is one simple way by which we can check if file exists or not in S3 bucket. We donot need to use exception for this

sesssion = boto3.Session(aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key)
s3 = session.client('s3')

object_name = 'filename'
bucket = 'bucketname'
obj_status = s3.list_objects(Bucket = bucket, Prefix = object_name)
if obj_status.get('Contents'):
    print("File exists")
else:
    print("File does not exists")