README.rst
LowVoltage is a standalone Python (2.7+ and 3.4+) client for `DynamoDB <http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/dynamodb/>`__
that doesn't hide any feature of `the API <http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html>`__.
It's licensed under the `MIT license <http://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/>`__.
It depends only on the excellent `python-requests <http://python-requests.org>`__ library.
It's available on the `Python package index <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/LowVoltage>`__, its `documentation is hosted by Python <http://pythonhosted.org/LowVoltage>`__ and its source code is on `GitHub <https://github.com/jacquev6/LowVoltage>`__.
It's currently in the beta stage, meaning I believe the interface will be fairly stable but may still change if we have good reasons to do so.
Please have a look to the `changelog <http://pythonhosted.org/LowVoltage/changelog.html>`__ when updating between v0.x releases.
I'll do my best to respect `semantic versioning <http://semver.org/>`__.
Questions? Remarks? Bugs? Want to contribute? `Open an issue <https://github.com/jacquev6/LowVoltage/issues>`__!
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.. _quick-start:
Quick start
===========
Install from PyPI::
$ pip install LowVoltage
Import the package and create a connection (assuming your ``AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`` and ``AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`` environment variables are set):
>>> from LowVoltage import *
>>> connection = Connection("us-west-2", EnvironmentCredentials())
Assuming you have a table named ``"LowVoltage.Tests.Doc.1"`` with a hash key on the number attribute ``"h"``, you can put an item and get it back:
>>> table = "LowVoltage.Tests.Doc.1"
>>> connection(PutItem(table, {"h": 0, "a": 42, "b": u"bar"}))
<LowVoltage.actions.put_item.PutItemResponse ...>
>>> connection(GetItem(table, {"h": 0})).item
{u'a': 42, u'h': 0, u'b': u'bar'}