How to check if DynamoDB table exists?

Question

I\'m a new user in boto3 and i\'m using DynamoDB.

I went through over the DynamoDB api and I couldn\'t find any method which tell me if a table is already e

Answer 1

Alternate approach if you do not want to use boto3.client but only boto3.resource:

import boto3

database = boto3.resource('dynamodb', endpoint_url="http://localhost:8000")    

table_name  = 'MyTable'
table_names = [table.name for table in database.tables.all()]

if table_name in table_names:
    print('table', table_name, 'exists')