How to open S3 object as a string with Boto3

Question

Hi Guys,

I have objects in the AWS S3 bucket. I want to open S3 object as a string with Boto3. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

If you want to return a string, you have to decode using the right encoding as shown below.

import boto3
import botocore
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
obj = s3.Object(bucket, key)
obj.get()['Body'].read().decode('utf-8')