downloading from s3

[Daniel W]

I'm trying to use boto to download a large file from an s3 bucket, and I'm a little confused by which method I should use.

Am I right that I should be using key.getfile()?

[Chris Moyer]

Key objects are similar to file objects in python, so you can just do read() to get the contents, or one of the special methods:

get_contents_as_string()

get_contents_to_filename("somefile")

get_contents_to_file(some_file_pointer)

But I prefer just to treat it as a string, unless you specifically want it downloaded to your file system. 

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On Jul 19, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Daniel W <dweitz...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm trying to use boto to download a large file from an s3 bucket, and I'm a little confused by which method I should use.

Am I right that I should be using key.getfile()?

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[Daniel W]

Ah, thanks Chris.

I had tried get_contents_to_filename() and it stopped mid-download, so I figured I was doing something wrong.  Turns out it was a disk space issue.