boto/boto — pull request #714 by mulka (2012-04-20 15:59:18+00:00)
Title: DynamoDB's create_schema() now supports passing a python type object

...in addition to a sample value for hash and range keys

So that you can do something like this:

import boto
conn = boto.connect_dynamodb()
schema = conn.create_schema('my_hash_key', str, 'my_range_key', float)