smart-open

Opens files for reading.

Programming language: Rust

License: MIT License

Tags: Applications written in Rust     System tools     Utilities    

README

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

• [x] Open text file on local filesystem.
• [x] Open gz text file on local filesystem.
• [x] Support for other text file formats (csv, json) etc.
• [x] s3 text files.
• [ ] s3 + gz files.
• [x] http text files.
• [x] 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.