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25 mentions on Hacker News by 24 people: 2 stories, 23 comments · first 2013-11-06 · latest 2026-05-25

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  1. …going to blame that on Amazon frankly. That's definitely bizarre. Edit: Were you looking at this? https://github.com/boto/boto3 Definitely more complicated than a typical greenfield virtualenv-able project, with some python version…
    comment by andrewflnr · 2026-05-25 · in Migrating from Go to Rust
  2. …version before the following. < https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/blob/release-2025-01-15... > < https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/4392 > < https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/1.37.0/CHANGELOG.rst#L19 > <…
  3. …object checksums for multipart S3 objects, and new default integrity protections for S3 requests. https://github.com/boto/boto3/blob/2e2eac05ba9c67f0ab285efe5...
    comment by femto113 · 2025-02-20 · in AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services
  4. …with S3 alternatives - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42740910 - Jan 2025 Config hotfix: https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/4400#issuecomment-26007... s3_client = boto3.client( 's3', endpoint_url=os.getenv('S3_ENDPOINT'),…
    comment by toomuchtodo · 2025-01-20 · in Announcement: S3 Default Integrity Change
  5. Looks to be "a" fix here: https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/4400#issuecomment-26007...
  6. …another project. There are a number of projects using boto just for the S3 compatibility layer too https://github.com/boto/boto3/network/dependents
  7. …for such an in-depth event. Most of the tickets you get in open ticket trackers are incomplete [ https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/4011 ] nonsensical [ https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/4018 ] or weird […
    comment by indrora · 2024-03-04 · in Bug in reader/writer locks in Windows API
  8. …be asynchronous. There is lib called "aiobotocore", but in reality it's not "aio"! Related issues: https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/1670 https://github.com/aio-libs/aiobotocore/issues/940 https://github.com/aio-libs/aiobotocore/issues/9…
    comment by vladimirkas · 2023-11-19 · in Asynchronous Python lib to work with Amazon SQS
  9. …than S3, I see )) In any case, thanks for mentioning the service. I'm quite happy with [Boto]( https://github.com/boto/boto3 ) for interfacing with Glacier but it is good to know about alternatives.
  10. ▲ 2
    For Years, AWS DynamoDB has been unable to store floats as primitives ¯_(ツ)_/¯
    story by wakahiu · 2020-04-14 · 0 comments
  11. …be a good Quora question for Mitch Garnaat. https://twitter.com/jrhunt/status/913087294222905344 https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/1023 http://acsonline.org/fact-sheets/boto-amazon-river-dolphin/
  12. …them it just silently ignores them. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/amazon-ec... https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/1184
    comment by mmontagna9 · 2017-07-17 · in Ask HN: Are you using AWS ECS in production?
  13. ▲ 1
    Ask HK: How do I report bugs in AWS services without paying for support?
    story by mmontagna9 · 2017-07-17 · 1 comment
  14. …the reason why, that said, it's a unique approach that leads to a lot less code to maintain. [1]: https://github.com/boto/boto3/blob/develop/boto3/data/s3/200...
  15. …that creates a bindings for his language of choice. For example of this take a look at: https://github.com/boto/boto3/tree/develop/boto3/data P.S. Agree that not all of the services adhere to the same bar.
    comment by karavelov · 2016-07-24 · in Overview of all Amazon AWS APIs
  16. …tool (maybe boto3 [1] ported to azure API... one can dream! :-) Thanks for pointing those out! [1] https://github.com/boto/boto3
    comment by aexaey · 2015-11-04 · in Microsoft and Red Hat partner
  17. No, WADL is XML. You can see some of the data files in the boto3 repository: https://github.com/boto/boto3/tree/develop/boto3/data It is somewhat similar in concept
    comment by Slippery_John · 2015-09-14 · in AWS SDK for C++
  18. Boto3 might also be worth a read. https://github.com/boto/boto3
    comment by wldcordeiro · 2015-07-16 · in Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?
  19. remember that boto3 was released separately - https://github.com/boto/boto3
    comment by sandGorgon · 2015-06-30 · in Useful Python Libraries for Startups
  20. We'd love to get some feedback! https://github.com/boto/boto3
  21. It is misguiding to say that boto supports Python 3. The boto3 repository ( https://github.com/boto/boto3 ) is experimental and far from feature completion. I am even not sure if it's API compatible with boto. Further, it has been dormant…
  22. …opinion on the project, if someone know more about it, don't hesitate to show me wrong. [1]: see https://github.com/boto/boto3
  23. …a port. I'm not sure of the exact reasoning, but that could explain why it takes them time. [0] https://github.com/boto/boto3
    comment by Wilya · 2014-04-13 · in Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020
  24. Has anyone used boto3? https://github.com/boto/boto3
    comment by voltagex_ · 2014-03-17 · in Python 3.4.0 released
  25. https://github.com/boto/boto3 Still in progress, but there you go.
    comment by pydanny · 2013-11-06 · in Django 1.6 released