ImportError: cannot import name 'is_s3express_bucket' from 'botocore.utils'

Question

Hi,

A code on sagemaker pipeline script is throwing an error related to 'is_s3express_bucket'.

The code:
subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "--upgrade", "awswrangler"])
subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "--upgrade", "sagemaker"])
#subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "--upgrade", "botocore"]) no change
#subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "--upgrade", "boto3"]) no change
subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "pandas==1.1.5"])
s3 = boto3.client('s3', region_name=region)

The error:
ImportError: cannot import name 'is_s3express_bucket' from 'botocore.utils' (/miniconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/botocore/utils.py)

Accepted Answer

Hi,

Look at the accepted answer of https://repost.aws/it/questions/QU2l9P6ZEhSkSL0lFQonOHfQ/a-lambda-failed-to-start-with-the-error-cannot-import-name-is-s3express-bucket-from-botocore-utils

It seems to be very close to your own issue and they propose a way to solve it that works.

In that case, it was a version mismatch between boto3 and botocore comming from the lambda runtime.

Best,

Didier

Answer

Python 3.7 libraries are very old. You’ll be on old versions of boto.

Need to get to a newer version.

ImportError: cannot import name 'is_s3express_bucket' from 'botocore.utils'

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