On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:37:20AM -0500, Thompson, David wrote:
> Small patch that adds the AWS SDK for Python which came in handy for
> me while testing a Lambda function (in the AWS sense) on my local
> machine yesterday.
> 
> - Dave

> From a328be2daccc7778f05c86a06b3b7db237473a44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:35:04 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-boto3 and python2-boto3.
> 
> * gnu/packages/python-web.scm (python-boto3, python2-boto3): New variables.

Thanks!

> +(define-public python2-boto3
> +  (let ((base (package-with-python2 python-boto3)))
> +    (package
> +      (inherit base)
> +      (propagated-inputs
> +       `(("python2-futures" ,python2-futures)
> +         ,@(package-propagated-inputs base))))))

I think this needs to use the python2-variant system. The package
definition of python2-parse-type has a simple example.