smart-open
Opens files for reading.
What??
smart_open
is a rust crate under active development with the goal of opening any text file (compressed or uncompressed) present either in local or on the cloud or the web.
extern crate smart_open as sm;
pub fn main() {
let text = sm::smart_open("tests/bar.txt.gz").unwrap();
println!("{}", text);
}
You can find sample code for other types of files in the examples
directory.
Goals for this project
- Open text file on local filesystem.
- Open gz text file on local filesystem.
- Support for other text file formats (csv, json) etc.
- s3 text files.
- s3 + gz files.
- http text files.
- http + gz files
Comments, bug reports
smart_open
lives on Github. You can file issues or pull requests there. Suggestions, pull requests and improvements welcome!
smart_open
is open source software released under the MIT license. Copyright (c) 2018-now Joydeep Bhattacharjee.