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] Text files on s3.
[ ] Gz files on s3.
[ ] Files on http.

Comments, bug reports

smart_open lives on Github. You can file issues or pull requests there. Suggestions, pull requests and improvements welcome!