HTTP resources as random-access file-like objects
httpio is a small Python library that allows you to access files
served over HTTP asfile-likeobjects (which is to say that they
support the interface of the standard library'sBufferedIOBase
class). It differs from libraries likeurllibandrequestsin
that it supportsseek()(which moves an internal pointer), and
thatread()makes a request with theRangeheader set. It also
supports caching of contents using a configurable block size, and will
reuse TCP connections where possible.
Usepipto install httpio:
$pip install httpioimportzipfile
importhttpio
url="http://some/large/file.zip"
withhttpio.open(url)asfp:
zf=zipfile.ZipFile(fp)
print(zf.namelist())Unit tests are provided for the standard behaviours implemented by the library. They can be run with
$Python -m unittest discover -s testsor atox.inifile is provided which allows the tests to be run in
virtual environments using thetoxtool:
$tox