Documentation incorrect for Lambda's create_function

I’ve been trying to use Lambda’s create_function by supplying a zip as an argument Code={'ZipFile': ...}, but have encountered problems with the documentation.

The documentation says: ZipFile (bytes) -- A base64-encoded .zip file containing your deployment package. For more information about creating a .zip file, go to Execution Permissions in the AWS Lambda Developer Guide .

Two problems I encountered:

1. Did not work when encoding zip in base64, but instead worked when I passed the bytes directly.
2. The page linked to (Execution Permissions) does not even contain the word zip

I’m guessing boto instead encodes the file to base64 itself?

thanks

[ryantuck]

for anyone stumbling on this late, syntax looks like:

import os
import boto3

boto3.client('lambda').create_function(
    ... ,
    Code={
        'ZipFile': open('my_file.zip', 'rb').read()
        },
    ...
)

[hushenbeg]

Thank you @ryantuck !