Simple python script to set AWS Credentials in your environment variables

set-aws-credentials.py

#! /usr/bin/env python

###############################################################
# In your .bashrc/.zshrc add `eval $(python <path to script>)`
# Or simply run `eval $(python <path to script>)`
# This avoids adding your aws credentials to bash/zsh history
###############################################################

import os, sys
from ConfigParser import ConfigParser

def setAwsCredentials(args):
    config = ConfigParser()
    if len(args) > 1:
        conf.read(args[1])
    else:
        config.read(os.getenv("HOME") + "/.aws/credentials")

    print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=%s AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=%s && echo 'aws credentials set'" % (
        config.get("default", "aws_access_key_id"), config.get("default", "aws_secret_access_key"))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    setAwsCredentials(sys.argv)

Thanks for sharing this code!

I needed to un-capitalize the configparser's import, like so:

from configparser import ConfigParser