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Page 13
key.save(key_dir)

Thanks for the excellent guide. It would be great to check that key_dir (~/.ssh/) exists and create it if not. I added a user to my machine for this guide, so saving the "paws.pem" file failed, and I got in a bit of a loop trying to figure out how to get a new paws SSH key. Eventually I figured out that I could create ~/.ssh/ myself, go into the web-based AWS Management Console and delete the "paws" keypair and then it would work.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Thanks for the report and for the useful suggestion. I have created an issue on github to track it and will fix it very soon:

https://github.com/garnaat/paws/issues/4

 Joshua Franklin  Feb 01, 2012 
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Example 3-6

The error is actually in the source code for Example 3-6. The copy_object function takes a parameter called preserve_metadata but later the function refers to preserve_acl. The corrected version of this code can be found at:

https://github.com/garnaat/paws/blob/master/s3_copy_object.py

 Mitch Garnaat
 		 Dec 09, 2011 
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example 2.2

I believe there is an error in the 2.2 example

After I run:
instance.add_tag('paws')

When I run
reservations = ec2.get_all_instances(filters={'paws' : None})
I get the error:

EC2ResponseError: 400 Bad Request
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Response><Errors><Error><Code>InvalidParameterValue</Code><Message>The filter 'paws' is invalid</Message></Error></Errors><RequestID>6b910de2-82a4-4645-81c1-cf7858327638</RequestID></Response>

If I change it to:
reservations = ec2.get_all_instances(filters={'tag:paws' : ""})

It works fine.

Note from the Author or Editor:
I believe the description above is correct and quite clear. The change needs to be made in the source code rather than the book text.

 Anonymous  Nov 15, 2011