smart-open 0.1.1

Utils for streaming large files (S3, HDFS, gzip, bz2...)

What?

smart_open is a Python library for efficient streaming of (very large) files from/to S3. It is well tested (using moto), well documented and has a dead simple API:

FIXME EXAMPES

Why?

Amazon’s standard Python library, boto contains all the necessary building blocks for streaming, but has a really clumsy interface. There are nasty hidden gotchas when you want to stream large files from/to S3 (as opposed to simple in-memory read/write with key.set_contents_from_string() and key.get_contents_as_string()).

smart_open shields you from that, offering a cleaner API. The result is less code for you to write and fewer bugs to make.

Installation

The module has no dependencies beyond 2.6 <= Python < 3.0 and boto:

pip install smart_open

Or, if you prefer to install from the source tar.gz

python setup.py test # run unit tests
python setup.py install

To run the unit tests (optional), you’ll also need to install mock and moto.

Todo

• improve smart_open support for HDFS (streaming from/to Hadoop File System)

• migrate smart_open streaming of gzip/bz2 files from gensim

• better document support for the default file:// scheme

• add py3k support

Documentation

FIXME TODO help()

Comments, bug reports

smart_open lives on github. You can file issues or pull requests there.