How to download a snappy.parquet file from s3 using Boto in Python - python-2.7

Question

I'm new to this, and trying to download a snappy.parquet file from Amazon s3 I can later convert to CSV file.
I tried working with the following example I've found online, and I get an empty folder. can anyone please help me?
import boto
import sys, os
from boto.s3.key import Key
from boto.exception import S3ResponseError
DOWNLOAD_LOCATION_PATH =""
BUCKET_NAME = ""
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID= ""
AWS_ACCESS_SECRET_KEY = ""
conn = boto.connect_s3(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_SECRET_KEY)
bucket = conn.get_bucket(BUCKET_NAME)
#goto through the list of files
bucket_list = bucket.list()
for l in bucket_list:
key_string = str(l.key)
s3_path = DOWNLOAD_LOCATION_PATH + key_string
try:
print ("Current File is ", s3_path)
l.get_contents_to_filename(s3_path)
except (OSError, S3ResponseError) as e:
pass
# check if the file has been downloaded locally
if not os.path.exists(s3_path):
try:
os.makedirs(s3_path)
except OSError as exc:
# let guard againts race conditions
import errno
if exc.errno != errno.EEXIST:
raise

Answer 1

The script you are using appears to recursively download the contents of the specified S3 bucket (BUCKET_NAME) to the specified local directory (DOWNLOAD_LOCATION_PATH). FWIW, I notice this script looks like it comes from here.
The "Current File is ..." output line should show you the progress of these files being written. One problem you might be having is due to this line:
s3_path = DOWNLOAD_LOCATION_PATH + key_string
If you had specified DOWNLOAD_LOCATION_PATH at the top as a directory without a trailing '/' character, e.g. like this:
DOWNLOAD_LOCATION_PATH = '/tmp/my_dir'
then the files being downloaded would be written not underneath the /tmp/my_dir directory, but directly in /tmp/ with a my_dir prefix on each filename! You can fix this by changing this line to:
s3_path = os.path.join(DOWNLOAD_LOCATION_PATH, key_string)
Other than that, the script appears to work alright. You may want to add this line at the very top:
from __future__ import print_function
if you are still using Python 2.x, otherwise the print output will look a bit odd (print will think you are printing a 2-Tuple).
Your question also makes it sound like you really only want/need to download a single file from the bucket -- if so, this isn't really a great script to be using, since it's downloading everything.