AWS credential exporter from .aws/credentials to environment vairables

awsexport.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import os.path
from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser

HOME = os.environ["HOME"]
CREDS = os.path.join(HOME, ".aws", "credentials")

def error(message):
    import sys
    sys.stderr.write(message)
    sys.stderr.write("\n")
    sys.exit(1)

def print_profile(profile):
    cfg = SafeConfigParser()
    cfg.read(CREDS)
    if not cfg.has_section(profile):
        error("No such profile: '%s'" % (profile,))

    for key in ("aws_access_key_id", "aws_secret_access_key"):
        print "export %s='%s'" % (key.upper(), cfg.get(profile, key))

def main():
    import sys
    if len(sys.argv) > 2:
        error("Usage: %s [profile]" % (sys.argv[0],))

    profile = "default"
    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
        profile = sys.argv[1]

    print_profile(profile)

if __name__ == "__main__": main()

example.sh

eval $(awsexport)