Basic operations with Python

Prabhakar Chaganti: "My personal preference is for the Python library—boto, which has a very nicely designed interface and a great community of users".

Python is an elegant, open source, object-oriented programming language that is great for rapid application development. Python is a stable, mature language that has been around for quite a long period of time, and is widely used across many of the industries and in a large variety of applications. It comes with an interactive console that can be used for quick evaluation of code snippets and makes experimentation with new APIs very easy. Python is a dynamically-typed language that gives you the power to program in a compact and concise manner. There is no such verbosity that is associated with a statically-typed language such as Java. It will be much easier to grasp the concepts of SimpleDB without drowning in a lot of lines of repetitive code. Most importantly, Python will bring fun back into your programming...