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Write csv file and save it into S3 using AWS Lambda (python)

I'm trying to write a csv file into an S3 bucket using AWS Lambda, and for this I used the following code:

data=[[1,2,3],[23,56,98]]
with open("s3://my_bucket/my_file.csv", "w") as f:
   f.write(data)

And this raises the following error:

[Errno 2] No such file or directory: u's3://my_bucket/my_file.csv': IOError
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/task/lambda_function.py", line 51, in lambda_handler
with open("s3://my_bucket/my_file.csv", "w") as f:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u's3://my_bucket/my_file.csv'

Can I have some help with this please ?

PS: I'm using python 2.7

Thanking you in advance

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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Better to answer later than never. There are four steps to get your data in S3:

  • Call the S3 bucket
  • Load the data into Lambda using the requests library (if you don't have it installed, you are gonna have to load it as a layer)
  • Write the data into the Lambda '/tmp' file
  • Upload the file into s3

Something like this:

import csv
import requests
#all other apropriate libs already be loaded in lambda

#properly call your s3 bucket
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
bucket = s3.Bucket('your-bucket-name')
key = 'yourfilename.txt'

#you would need to grab the file from somewhere. Use this incomplete line below to get started:
with requests.Session() as s:
    getfile = s.get('yourfilelocation')

#Only then you can write the data into the '/tmp' folder.
with open('/tmp/yourfilename.txt', 'w', newline='') as f:
    w = csv.writer(f)
    w.writerows(filelist)
#upload the data into s3
bucket.upload_file('/tmp/yourfilename.txt', key)

Hope it helps.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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I am not aware of using AWS Lambda, but I have been using Boto3 to do the same. It is a simple few line code.

#Your file path will be something like this:
#s3://<your_s3_bucket_name>/<Directory_name>/<File_name>.csv

import boto3

BUCKET_NAME = '<your_s3_bucket_name>'
PREFIX = '<Directory_name>/'
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
obj = s3.Object(BUCKET_NAME, PREFIX + '<File_name>.csv')
obj.put(Body=content)
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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with open("s3://my_bucket/my_file.csv", "w+") as f:

instead of

with open("s3://my_bucket/my_file.csv", "w") as f:

notice the "w" has changed to "w+" this means that it will write to the file, and if it does not exist it will create it.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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