Comments on: Playing with S3 in Python http://thermopylae.net/blog/2008/07/22/playing-with-s3-in-python/ Do I know what a rhetorical question is? Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:40:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jim http://thermopylae.net/blog/2008/07/22/playing-with-s3-in-python/comment-page-1/#comment-262 Jim Thu, 14 May 2009 16:32:07 +0000 http://thermopylae.net/blog/?p=4#comment-262 Thanks for publishing this getting started guide; it saved me some time trying out S3. The first issue I had was that I created a bucket name with uppercase letters. That blows with a weird 403 Forbidden error, leading you to think it's a problem with credentials. But change everything to lowercase and it works. The problem I have now is that your small sample program takes 20 seconds to run! I changed it to get_bucket instead of create_bucket (after creating the bucket), and it still took 20 seconds. I looked around the source code and saw that get_bucket has an extra argument, validate=False, and when I used that, the get_bucket completed quickly, but now set_contents_from_filename takes a long time (20 seconds). I have tried other things like s3put in the boto distribution, and it also takes 20 seconds. Any ideas? It sounds like some kind of DNS problem on my end, but I can ping s3.amazonaws.com instantly. Thanks! Jim Thanks for publishing this getting started guide; it saved me some time trying out S3.

The first issue I had was that I created a bucket name with uppercase letters. That blows with a weird 403 Forbidden error, leading you to think it’s a problem with credentials. But change everything to lowercase and it works.

The problem I have now is that your small sample program takes 20 seconds to run! I changed it to get_bucket instead of create_bucket (after creating the bucket), and it still took 20 seconds. I looked around the source code and saw that get_bucket has an extra argument, validate=False, and when I used that, the get_bucket completed quickly, but now set_contents_from_filename takes a long time (20 seconds). I have tried other things like s3put in the boto distribution, and it also takes 20 seconds.

Any ideas? It sounds like some kind of DNS problem on my end, but I can ping s3.amazonaws.com instantly.

Thanks!
Jim

]]> By: admin http://thermopylae.net/blog/2008/07/22/playing-with-s3-in-python/comment-page-1/#comment-198 admin Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:03:59 +0000 http://thermopylae.net/blog/?p=4#comment-198 As you can see from the command prompts, the example I had in my blog was done on Windows. It shouldn't really matter since the code doesn't have any platform specific dependencies. As you can see from the command prompts, the example I had in my blog was done on Windows. It shouldn’t really matter since the code doesn’t have any platform specific dependencies.

]]> By: Sam http://thermopylae.net/blog/2008/07/22/playing-with-s3-in-python/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Sam Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:02:18 +0000 http://thermopylae.net/blog/?p=4#comment-195 Hi, This is great to see. I was wondering if boto works on Windows. I hope that is windows you are running. Pls confirm. I m writing a cross platform app and i would be delighted to know. Pls let me know if there are any dependencies that i need to take care of. Thanks a ton Sam Hi,

This is great to see. I was wondering if boto works on Windows. I hope that is windows you are running. Pls confirm. I m writing a cross platform app and i would be delighted to know. Pls let me know if there are any dependencies that i need to take care of.

Thanks a ton

Sam

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