Install boto3 on MAC

System Information

# sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.14.5
BuildVersion:   18F132

Check pip version

# pip --version
pip 19.1.1 from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-19.1.1-py2.7.egg/pip (python 2.7)

Install boto3

• Pre-requirement Package

if you see an error like below

ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/man'

and then you have one parameter missing needs add --user

# sudo pip install matplotlib --user

• Install boto3

if you see an error like below

ERROR: Cannot uninstall 'six'. It is a distutils installed project and thus we cannot accurately determine which files belong to it which would lead to only a partial uninstall.

and then you should add the parameter --ignore-installed six

# sudo pip install boto3 --ignore-installed six

Now you can use boto3 call AWS API

Reference:

• Quickstart
• Python: Cannot uninstall 'six' while pip install tld