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

This isn't in the boto3 documentation. This worked for me:

object.get()["Body"].read()

object being an s3 object: http://boto3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/services/s3.html#object