boto 0.3a
24 Sep 2006

Copyright (c) 2006 Mitch Garnaat <mitch@garnaat.org>

http://code.google.com/p/boto

Boto is a Python package that provides interfaces to Amazon Web Services.
At the moment, boto supports S3 (Simple Storage Service) and SQS (Simple
Queue Service) via the REST API's provided by those services.  The goal
is to support additional services in the future.

The goal of boto is to provide a very simple, easy to use, lightweight
wrapper around the Amazon services.  Not all features supported by the
Amazon Web Services will be supported in boto.  Basically, only those
features I need to do what I want to do are supported.  To the extent that
the features I need are the features that you need you may find boto useful.

Boto was written using Python 2.4.1 on Mac OSX.  It has also been tested
on Linux Fedora Core 4 using Python 2.4.1.  Boto requires no additional
libraries or packages other than those that are distributed with Python 2.4.1.

There is some documentation for boto, mainly in the form of tutorials.
Check in the doc directory of the distribution.  You can also check out
the unit tests in the tests directory of the distribution for examples of use.

You AWS credentials can be passed into the methods that create S3 and SQS
connections.  Alternatively, boto will check for the existance of the
following environment variables to ascertain your credentials:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID - Your AWS Access Key ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY - Your AWS Secret Access Key

Changes
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boto 0.3a changes

+ Documented environment variables used.  Fixes Issue-1.
+ Added set_body() method, torched parse_body().  Fixed Issue-5.
+ Added tutorial for SQS use.  Partially fixes Issue-2.
+ Added start of a tutorial for S3 use.  Partially fixes Issue-2.
+ get_timeout method now returns int rather than string.  Fixes Issue-3
+ Now automatically re-establishes HTTP connection with service if keep-alive times out or pipe is broken.  Fixes Issue-4.
+ Added a get_contents_as_string method.  Fixes Issue-6.





