Python with boto script aws...help!

Senor Frog

I'm new to python and programming in general. I have been trying to write a script in python implementing the boto library to monitor instances that are running in my EC2 amazon web services account. Below is my script:
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     import boto
     import boto.ec2
     import time

     key_id = "*******"
     secret_key = "********"

    region = boto.ec2.get_region("eu-west-1", aws_access_key_id=key_id,                                                                                  aws_secret_access_key=secret_key)
    print region

                                                                                                                                                                     conn =    boto.connect_ec2(aws_access_key_id=key_id,aws_secret_access_key=secret_key,region=region)

        reservation = conn.run_instances('<ami-a63edbd1>',key_name='*******')

        for inst in reservation.instances:
        if instance.state == u'running' :
        
         print "Running AWS EC2 instances"
         print"%s" % (inst.id, inst.type, region.placement, inst.launch_time)

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Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks

srsly78

Indentation is not optional, use code tags when pasting python here.

Like this:

   print "this stuff is inside code tags"

Senor Frog

I keep getting the following error:

Talisman

The error message tells you exactly what the problem is:

< is <
> is >

reservation = conn.run_instances('<ami-a63edbd1>',key_name='*******')

So get rid of the angle brackets in the line above.