Here's some code to get you Amazon SES SMTP credentials from your access key id and secret.
def get_smtp_creds(access_key_id, secret_access_key):
message = 'SendRawEmail'
version = 0x02
sig = hmac.new(
secret_access_key,
msg=message,
digestmod=hashlib.sha256)
sig_bytes = sig.digest()
sig_and_version_bytes = (struct.pack('B', version) + sig_bytes)
smtp_password = base64.b64encode(sig_and_version_bytes)
return access_key_id, smtp_password