How can I access s3 files in Python using urls?

Question

I want to write a Python script that will read and write files from s3 using their url\'s, eg:\'s3:/mybucket/file\'. It would need to run locally and in the cloud without a

Answer 1

Try s3fs

First example on the docs:

>>> import s3fs
>>> fs = s3fs.S3FileSystem(anon=True)
>>> fs.ls('my-bucket')
['my-file.txt']
>>> with fs.open('my-bucket/my-file.txt', 'rb') as f:
...     print(f.read())
b'Hello, world'