filehandles 0.3.1

filehandles is a file handle manager that let you get file handles from different sources.

The filehandles package is a Python library that facilitates processing of files by removing boilerplate code that you need to write to open files from directories, zip archives, tar archives, URL addresses of files, etc. It also automatically closes open file handle after it has been processed.

Links

• mwtab @ GitHub

• mwtab @ PyPI

Installation

The filehandles package runs under Python 2.7 and Python 3.4+. Use pip to install.

Install

python3 -m pip install filehandles

Upgrade

python3 -m pip install filehandles --upgrade

Quickstart

>>> from filehandles import filehandles
>>>
>>> for fh in filehandles('path/to/files'):
...     # utilize file handle
...     text = fh.readline()
>>>