title: Amazon Lex mock for Python
body: <p>I am using Amazon Lex and AWS Lambda (implemented in Python 3.6) to build and interact with a chat bot.</p>
  
  <p>So far, my workflow has been creating an example Lex response that is passed to my Lambda function. I "invoke" (not being run on anywhere other than my machine) the Lambda function locally and then inspect the result.</p>
  
  <p>However, this workflow doesn't scale very well. I need to be able to mock Amazon Lex so that I can interact with it locally and inspect the response for local debugging.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know of an Amazon Lex mock or any ideas on how to get an instance of Lex running on my local machine? Many thanks in advance.</p>