How to load a pickle file from S3 to use in AWS Lambda?

Question

I am currently trying to load a pickled file from S3 into AWS lambda and store it to a list (the pickle is a list).

Here is my code:

import pickle
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Answer 1

Super simple solution

import pickle
import boto3

s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
my_pickle = pickle.loads(s3.Bucket("bucket_name").Object("key_to_pickle.pickle").get()['Body'].read())