Boto Credential Error With Python On Windows

I have been working on trying to sign in on Boto via python for the last few hours and can't seem to solve the problem. Python keep returning the error that: No handler was re

Solution 1:

By default, boto looks for credentials in /etc/boto.cfg and in ~/.boto. It uses os.path.expanduser to try to expand ~/.boto into the appropriate path on your system. For Windows platforms, this relies on the environment variables HOME and USERPROFILE. If neither of these variables are set in your environment, it probably won't find the boto config file.

You have a couple of options. You could make sure that HOME is set in your environment to the directory in which your .boto file is stored. Or, you could set the environment variable BOTO_CONFIG to point directly to your config file, wherever it is on your file system. If you take this option it should be set to the fully qualified path to your boto config file.

I'm not sure why supplying the credentials directly did not work for you. Could you provide more information about how it's failing? Are you getting an error message? If so, what?