Python - Reset BytesIO So Next File Isn't Appended

Question

I'm having a problem with BytesIO library in Python. I want to convert a pdf file that I have retrieved from an S3 bucket, and convert it into a dataframe using a custom function convert_bytes_to_df . The first pdf file is fine to convert to a csv, however subsequent csvs look like they have appended to each other. I have tried to reset the IO with seek and truncate but it doesn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong?

import boto3
from io import BytesIO,StringIO

LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.ERROR)
logging.getLogger(__name__).setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

session = boto3.Session()
s3 = session.resource('s3')
src_bucket = s3.Bucket('input-bucket')
dest_bucket = s3.Bucket('output-bucket')
csv_buffer = StringIO()

def lambda_handler(event,context):
    msg = event['Records'][0]['Sns']['Message']
    pdf_files = json.loads(msg)['pdf_files']
    location = json.loads(msg)['location']
    total_files= len(pdf_files)
    LOGGER.info('Processing: {}'.format(json.dumps(pdf_files)))
    for pdf_file in pdf_files:

        file_name = pdf_file['key']
        obj = s3.Object(src_bucket.name,file_name)
        fs = BytesIO(obj.get()['Body'].read())
        df = convert_bytes_to_df(fs)
        df.to_csv(csv_buffer,index=False)
        s3.Object(dest_bucket.name, location +"/"+file_name.split('.')[0]+".csv").put(Body=csv_buffer.getvalue())

        fs.seek(0)
        fs.truncate(0)

        LOGGER.info('Processed: {} in {}'.format(file_name,location))
    LOGGER.info('Converted {} files: {}'.format(total_files,json.dumps(pdf_files)))
    
    src_bucket.objects.all().delete()
    LOGGER.info('Deleted all files from {}'.format(src_bucket.name))   

Answer 1

move csv_buffer = StringIO() inside for loop. csv_buffer is initialized only once. you need it to be inside for loop so that it is getting initialized for each element in the loop.

eg:

for pdf_file in pdf_files:
    csv_buffer = StringIO()
    file_name = pdf_file['key']
    obj = s3.Object(src_bucket.name,file_name)
    fs = BytesIO(obj.get()['Body'].read())
    df = convert_bytes_to_df(fs)
    df.to_csv(csv_buffer,index=False)
    s3.Object(dest_bucket.name, location +"/"+file_name.split('.')[0]+".csv").put(Body=csv_buffer.getvalue())

    fs.seek(0)
    fs.truncate(0)