How to convert from DynamoDB wire protocol to native Python object manually with boto3?

Question

I have a Lambda that is being triggered by a DynamoDB stream. The Lambda does some processing and then creates a notification on a topic in SNS. Ideally I would like to includ

Answer 1

Using TypeDeserializer didn't work for me for some reason. This utility did, however:

https://github.com/Alonreznik/dynamodb-json

Those not wanting to deal with emulating pip install inside a Lambda function, you can just copy and paste this source file (containing the loads() function) into your own code:

https://github.com/Alonreznik/dynamodb-json/blob/master/dynamodb_json/json_util.py