How to check if DynamoDB table exists?

Question

I\'m a new user in boto3 and i\'m using DynamoDB.

I went through over the DynamoDB api and I couldn\'t find any method which tell me if a table is already e

Answer 1

Note that it kind of depends on if you are using client or resource. If you use boto3.client(), you can use the 3 methods the accepted answer suggested. If you are using boto3.resource(), you can only use dynamodb_resource.create_table() and check exceptions.

try:
    table = dynamodb_resource.create_table(
        ...
    )
    table.meta.client.get_waiter('table_exists').wait(TableName=your_table_name)
except ResourceInUseException:
    # do sth here