user_data doc for ec2 run_instances method

[hyao]

On page:

http://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ref/ec2.html

The documentation for the user_data of the run_instances method is

user_data (string) – The Base64-encoded MIME user data to be made available to the instance(s) in this reservation.

It might be true for python scripts, but for shell scripts, it seems passing raw shell scripts works, while passing base64-encoded shell scripts doesn't work.

Thanks,

[maitreya1975]

I noticed the same issue with boto (2.32.1) botocore (0.56.0)
With run_instances() base64-encoded string does not work but raw string works.
The documentation for run_instances() and run() asks for Base64 user_data.
The documentation for request_spot_instances() does not specify any encoding for user_data.