Example of using a botocore waiter

botocore_waiter.py

import botocore.session

cloudformation_template = """
{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Resources": {
    "queue1": {
      "Type": "AWS::SQS::Queue",
      "Properties": {
        "QueueName": "my-queue"
      }
    }
  }
}
"""

session = botocore.session.get_session()
cloudformation_client = session.create_client('cloudformation', region_name='us-east-1')

print('creating cloudformation stack')
cloudformation_client.create_stack(StackName='my-stack', TemplateBody=cloudformation_template)

print('waiting for cloudformation stack creation to complete')
waiter = cloudformation_client.get_waiter('stack_create_complete')
waiter.wait(StackName='my-stack')