garybernhardt

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pgolding

Boto3 documentation for lambda_client.invoke suggests it is possible to pass data via the ClientContext object as a string.

The string is required to be base64 encoded JSON.

To encode such a string, use:

import baseb4
base64.b64encode(b'<string>').decode('utf-8')