Is there a way to get an attribute from a resource using its resource name? For example, I create a bucket after a reference to that bucket.

some_other_resource = foo.resource("foores", s3_bucket_id = bucket1.id, ...)
...
bucket1 = s3.bucket("bucket1", ...args)

This would be likened to Interpolation in terraform. Or tropospheres ability to use Ref('<resource_name>').

Could you describe your use-case a bit more? I’d like to better understand why you can’t:

bucket1 = s3.bucket("bucket1", ...args)
...
some_other_resource = foo.resource("foores", s3_bucket_id = bucket1.id, ...)

What I want to do is this:

some_other_resource = foo.resource("foores", s3_bucket_id = bucket1.id, ...)
...
bucket1 = s3.bucket("bucket1", ...args)

i think i’m just trying to understand why the order cannot be switched?

The order cannot be switched because of python.

UnboundLocalError: local variable 'bucket1' referenced before assignment
    error: an unhandled error occurred: Program exited with non-zero exit code: 1

no, i meant the order in terms of bucket1 comes first

It could come afterward in this situation, but in certain conditionals in my code, I can't always reverse the order. I mainly just want to know pre-referencing is possible, or if I could reference a resource based on the resource_name somehow. Its fine if the answer is no, but I can't find anything online that says if I have access to the resource_names.

Unfortunately, you can’t do it via referencing the resource_name. I think if you really need to do this kind of thing, your best bet would be to not use autonaming and force the name in the subsequent statement when you create the bucket.