capo-lakeformation: typed, async Python SDK for AWS Lakeformation¶

capo-lakeformation is a typed Python SDK for AWS Lakeformation. It has an async client, AsyncLakeFormationClient, for asyncio and trio, and a sync client, LakeFormationClient, with the same methods. Requests and responses are typed with TypedDicts, so your editor and type checker know every field.

It is part of capo, a community-driven alternative to boto3 and aioboto3, built on its own HTTP stack instead of botocore and generated from the official AWS Smithy models. Documentation: https://capo-sdk.dev/services/lakeformation/

Installation¶

pip install capo-lakeformation

Usage¶

from capo_lakeformation import AsyncLakeFormationClient


async def main():
    async with AsyncLakeFormationClient() as lake_formation:
        # Example: call the add_lf_tags_to_resource operation
        response = await lake_formation.add_lf_tags_to_resource()
        print(response["failures"])

Pagination¶

Some operations in this SDK support pagination. If the operation supports pagination it will have an iter_ prefixed method that returns an async iterator.

from capo_lakeformation import AsyncLakeFormationClient


async def main():
    async with AsyncLakeFormationClient() as lake_formation:
        # Example: paginate over get_effective_permissions_for_path
        async for item in lake_formation.iter_get_effective_permissions_for_path():
            print(item)

Streaming Response¶

Some operations return a streaming response body. Use the operation as an async context manager and iterate over the response field to read chunks.

from capo_lakeformation import AsyncLakeFormationClient


async def main():
    async with AsyncLakeFormationClient() as lake_formation:
        # Example: call get_work_unit_results and read the streaming response
        async with lake_formation.get_work_unit_results() as response:
            async for chunk in response["result_stream"]:
                print(chunk)

Error Handling¶

The SDK raises exceptions for errors returned by the API. Catch them to handle failures gracefully.

from capo_lakeformation import AsyncLakeFormationClient
from capo_lakeformation.error import AccessDeniedException


async def main():
    async with AsyncLakeFormationClient() as lake_formation:
        try:
            await lake_formation.add_lf_tags_to_resource()
        except AccessDeniedException as e:
            print(f"Error: {e}")
            print(e.data)  # additional error data

Retrying¶

The SDK retries failed operations automatically. Retry behaviour follows the Smithy specification: errors are retried based on their is_retryable and is_throttling_error attributes. Throttling errors use a longer base delay. Network-level failures (connection errors and timeouts) are also retried. Non-retryable errors, such as client errors without the @retryable trait, are raised immediately without further attempts.

The number of attempts defaults to 3 and can be changed at the client level via retry_max_attempts, or per call via config_overrides.

from capo_lakeformation import AsyncLakeFormationClient


async def main():
    async with AsyncLakeFormationClient() as lake_formation:
        # Default: 3 attempts for every operation
        response = await lake_formation.add_lf_tags_to_resource()

        # Override per operation
        response = await lake_formation.add_lf_tags_to_resource(config_overrides={"retry_max_attempts": 5})

        # Disable retries for this call
        response = await lake_formation.add_lf_tags_to_resource(config_overrides={"retry_max_attempts": 1})