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

Python3 + Using boto3 API approach.

By using S3.Client.download_fileobj API and Python file-like object, S3 Object content can be retrieved to memory.

Since the retrieved content is bytes, in order to convert to str, it need to be decoded.

import io
import boto3

client = boto3.client('s3')
bytes_buffer = io.BytesIO()
client.download_fileobj(Bucket=bucket_name, Key=object_key, Fileobj=bytes_buffer)
byte_value = bytes_buffer.getvalue()
str_value = byte_value.decode() #python3, default decoding is utf-8