Retrieve S3 file as Object instead of downloading to absolute system path

Question

I just started learning and using S3, read the docs. Actually I didn\'t find anything to fetch the file into an object instead of downloading it from S3? if this could be po

Answer 1

I prefer this approach, equivalent to a previous answer:

import boto3
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
def read_s3_contents(bucket_name, key):
    response = s3.Object(bucket_name, key).get()
    return response['Body'].read()

But another approach could read the object into StringIO:

import StringIO
import boto3
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
def read_s3_contents_with_download(bucket_name, key):
    string_io = StringIO.StringIO()
    s3.Object(bucket_name, key).download_fileobj(string_io)
    return string_io.getvalue()