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How to Read a CSV File from Amazon S3 Using Python (With Headers and Rows Displayed)

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  Introduction If you’re working with cloud data, especially on AWS, chances are you’ll encounter data stored in CSV files inside an Amazon S3 bucket . Whether you're building a data pipeline or a quick analysis tool, reading data directly from S3 in Python is a fast, reliable, and scalable way to get started. In this blog post, we’ll walk through: Setting up access to S3 Reading a CSV file using Python and Boto3 Displaying headers and rows Tips to handle larger datasets Let’s jump in! What You’ll Need An AWS account An S3 bucket with a CSV file uploaded AWS credentials (access key and secret key) Python 3.x installed boto3 and pandas libraries installed (you can install them via pip) pip install boto3 pandas Step-by-Step: Read CSV from S3 Let’s say your S3 bucket is named my-data-bucket , and your CSV file is sample-data/employees.csv . ✅ Step 1: Import Required Libraries import boto3 import pandas as pd from io import StringIO boto3 is...

How to Decode Python Exception Messages Like a Pro

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While developing python programs, you might see exception messages from python. Here's an explanation to understand each part of the message. Here're tips on how to understand python exceptions. You can find two kinds of exceptions. These are StandardError and StopIteration errors. Here is a chart that shows the types of python errors. Python exceptions class Python exceptions are basically three parts. Reading an error message produced by  Python is not very difficult . The error type, the error description, and the traceback. Understand the python exception message The Error Type There are so many in-built exception types in python. Here is the command to get all the exception types: [x for x in dir(__builtins__) if 'Error' in x] The Error description The text message right after the error type gives us a description of what exactly the problem was. These descriptions are sometimes very accurate, sometimes not. Sample error Traceback (most recent call last):     ...