# X-pack and sql in python

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-and-sql-in-python/242685>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** language-clients\
**Created:** [July 27, 2020, 5:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-and-sql-in-python/242685 "2020-07-27T05:11:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![chezhian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chezhian/32/72279_2.png) [@chezhian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chezhian)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 5:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-and-sql-in-python/242685/1 "2020-07-27T05:11:30Z")

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Trying to see how i can call the x-pack sql feature in python. Am I invoking xpack client correctly

AttributeError: 'XPackClient' object has no attribute 'sql'

from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch, RequestsHttpConnection  
from requests\_aws4auth import AWS4Auth  
from elasticsearch\_xpack import XPackClient  
import boto3

host = ''  
region = ''

service = 'es'  
credentials = boto3.Session().get\_credentials()  
awsauth = AWS4Auth(credentials.access\_key, credentials.secret\_key, region, service, session\_token=credentials.token)

es = Elasticsearch(  
hosts = [{'host': host, 'port': 443}],  
http\_auth = awsauth,  
use\_ssl = True,  
verify\_certs = True,  
connection\_class = RequestsHttpConnection  
)  
xpack = XPackClient(es)  
document = {  
"query": "SELECT \* FROM movies ORDER BY id DESC",  
"fetch\_size": 2  
}

print(xpack.sql(  
body = document,  
format = 'json'  
))

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-and-sql-in-python/242685/2 "2020-07-27T05:34:25Z")

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Which version of Elasticsearch are you using? What does the `elasticsearch.yml` file look like? What do you get if you run the [info API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/info-api.html)?

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**Author:** ![chezhian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chezhian/32/72279_2.png) [@chezhian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chezhian)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-and-sql-in-python/242685/3 "2020-07-27T17:57:21Z")

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apologies .. turns out aws - elasticsearch offering does not have x-pack installed in their server.they support another sql engine.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-and-sql-in-python/242685/4 "2020-08-24T17:57:29Z")

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