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Real asynchronous file operations with asyncio support.

Status

Development - Stable

Features

  • Since version 2.0.0 using caio, is contain linux libaio and two thread-based implementations (c-based and pure-python).

  • AIOFile has no internal pointer. You should pass offset and chunk_size for each operation or use helpers (Reader or Writer).

  • For Linux using implementation based on libaio.

  • For POSIX (MacOS X and optional Linux) using implementation using on threadpool.

  • Otherwise using pure-python thread-based implementation.

  • Implementation chooses automatically depending on system compatibility.

Code examples

All code examples requires python 3.6+.

High-level API

async_open helper

The async_open helper creates file like object with file-like methods:

import asyncio
from aiofile import async_open


async def main():
    async with async_open("/tmp/hello.txt", 'w+') as afp:
        await afp.write("Hello ")
        await afp.write("world")
        afp.seek(0)

        print(await afp.read())


loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main())

Supported methods:

  • async def read(length = -1) - reading chunk from file, when length is -1 will be read file to the end.

  • async def write(data) - write chunk to file

  • def seek(offset) - set file pointer position

  • def tell() - returns current file pointer position

Reader and Writer

When you want to read or write file linearly following example might be helpful.

import asyncio
from aiofile import AIOFile, Reader, Writer


async def main():
    async with AIOFile("/tmp/hello.txt", 'w+') as afp:
        writer = Writer(afp)
        reader = Reader(afp, chunk_size=8)

        await writer("Hello")
        await writer(" ")
        await writer("World")
        await afp.fsync()

        async for chunk in reader:
            print(chunk)


loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main())

LineReader - read file line by line

LineReader is a helper that is very effective when you want to read a file linearly and line by line.

It contains a buffer and will read the fragments of the file chunk by chunk into the buffer, where it will try to find lines.

The default chunk size is 4KB.

import asyncio
from aiofile import AIOFile, LineReader, Writer


async def main():
    async with AIOFile("/tmp/hello.txt", 'w+') as afp:
        writer = Writer(afp)

        await writer("Hello")
        await writer(" ")
        await writer("World")
        await writer("\n")
        await writer("\n")
        await writer("From async world")
        await afp.fsync()

        async for line in LineReader(afp):
            print(line)


loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main())

When you want to read file by lines please avoid to use async_open use LineReader instead.

Low-level API

Following API is just little bit sugared caio API.

Write and Read

import asyncio
from aiofile import AIOFile


async def main():
    async with AIOFile("/tmp/hello.txt", 'w+') as afp:
        await afp.write("Hello ")
        await afp.write("world", offset=7)
        await afp.fsync()

        print(await afp.read())


loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main())

Read file line by line

import asyncio
from aiofile import AIOFile, LineReader, Writer


async def main():
    async with AIOFile("/tmp/hello.txt", 'w') as afp:
        writer = Writer(afp)

        for i in range(10):
            await writer("%d Hello World\n" % i)

        await writer("Tail-less string")


    async with AIOFile("/tmp/hello.txt", 'r') as afp:
        async for line in LineReader(afp):
            print(line[:-1])


loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main())

More examples

Useful examples with aiofile

Async CSV Dict Reader

import asyncio
import io
from csv import DictReader

from aiofile import AIOFile, LineReader


class AsyncDictReader:
    def __init__(self, afp, **kwargs):
        self.buffer = io.BytesIO()
        self.file_reader = LineReader(
            afp, line_sep=kwargs.pop('line_sep', '\n'),
            chunk_size=kwargs.pop('chunk_size', 4096),
            offset=kwargs.pop('offset', 0),
        )
        self.reader = DictReader(
            io.TextIOWrapper(
                self.buffer,
                encoding=kwargs.pop('encoding', 'utf-8'),
                errors=kwargs.pop('errors', 'replace'),
            ), **kwargs,
        )
        self.line_num = 0

    def __aiter__(self):
        return self

    async def __anext__(self):
        if self.line_num == 0:
            header = await self.file_reader.readline()
            self.buffer.write(header)

        line = await self.file_reader.readline()

        if not line:
            raise StopAsyncIteration

        self.buffer.write(line)
        self.buffer.seek(0)

        try:
            result = next(self.reader)
        except StopIteration as e:
            raise StopAsyncIteration from e

        self.buffer.seek(0)
        self.buffer.truncate(0)
        self.line_num = self.reader.line_num

        return result


async def main():
    async with AIOFile('sample.csv', 'rb') as afp:
        async for item in AsyncDictReader(afp, line_sep='\r'):
            print(item)


loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)


try:
    loop.run_until_complete(main())
finally:
    # Shutting down and closing file descriptors after interrupt
    loop.run_until_complete(loop.shutdown_asyncgens())
    loop.close()

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