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How can I add a tag to a key in boto (Amazon S3)?

I am trying to tag a key that I've uploaded to S3. In the same below I just create a file from a string. Once I have they key, I'm not sure how to tag the file. I've tried Tag as well as TagSet.

from boto.s3.bucket import Bucket
from boto.s3.key import Key
from boto.s3.tagging import Tag, TagSet

k = Key(bucket)
k.key = 'foobar/somefilename'
k.set_contents_from_string('some data in file')

Tag(k, 'the_tag')
Solution

  • As far as I can see in the docs, a setTags-method is only available on a bucket level and not on individual keys. Therefore you cannot set different tags to your uploaded file, but you would have to do this on the containing bucket.