urlfile

Lazily reading a file from a url. Allows random access via http range requests so that not the whole file has to be downloaded first.

Example Usage

import urlfile
import zipfile

with zipfile.ZipFile(urlfile.UrlFile(url=...)) as f:
  f.printdir()

Caching

Buffering and caching is provided via urlfile.BufferedUrlFile.

f = urlfile.BufferedUrlFile(url=..., cache_size_bytes=...)

By default, uses a cache size of 10MB.

Other options

These are arguments of UrlFile/BufferedUrlFile

• verbose: whether to show progress bars during fetching of data (using rich.progress, default: False)
• session: a requests.Session to use (default: None, creates a new session)