Report model example

report.py

import StringIO

from django.db import models
from boto3.session import Session

class Report(models.Model):
    # ...
    # Information about the model

    def create_report_and_send_by_email(self):
        stream = StringIO.StringIO()
        self.create_report(stream)

        # Go back to the first bit of the stream
        stream.seek(0)

        session = Session(aws_access_key_id=AWS_ACCESS_KEY, aws_secret_access_key=AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)
        s3 = session.resource('s3')
        s3.Bucket(AWS_BUCKET_DATA).put_object(
            Key='file.pdf',
            Body=stream.read(),
            ACL='public-read',
            Expires=(datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(days=1)).strftime('%Y/%m/%d'),
            ContentType='application/pdf'
        )

        # Do some other stuff and send the file by email

    # More methods
    # ...