Open S3 object as a string with Boto3

Question

I\'m aware that with Boto 2 it\'s possible to open an S3 object as a string with: get_contents_as_string()

Is there an equivalent function in boto3 ?

Answer 1

I had a problem to read/parse the object from S3 because of .get() using Python 2.7 inside an AWS Lambda.

I added json to the example to show it became parsable :)

import boto3
import json

s3 = boto3.client('s3')

obj = s3.get_object(Bucket=bucket, Key=key)
j = json.loads(obj['Body'].read())

NOTE (for python 2.7): My object is all ascii, so I don't need .decode('utf-8')

NOTE (for python 3.6+): We moved to python 3.6 and discovered that read() now returns bytes so if you want to get a string out of it, you must use:

j = json.loads(obj['Body'].read().decode('utf-8'))