seekablehttpfile 0.0.3

A lazy-loading, seekable, remote file object using http range requests

seekablehttpfile

This project provides a file-like object that fetches parts of a file using HTTP range requests as needed.

>>> from seekablehttpfile import SeekableHttpFile
>>> from zipfile import ZipFile

>>> f = SeekableHttpFile("https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/cb/90/599c79a248dcae6935331113649de5d75427e320efde21b583648b498584/tensorflow_intel-2.14.0-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl")  # 284MB
>>> # use as normal, for example with ZipFile
>>> z = ZipFile(f)
>>> len(z.namelist())
9414
>>> # find out how much we actually read
>>> f.stats
{'num_requests': 4, 'optimistic_bytes_read': 256000, 'lazy_bytes_read': 1078669, 'satisfied_from_cache': 2}

License

seekablehttpfile is copyright Tim Hatch, and licensed under the MIT license. I am providing code in this repository to you under an open source license. This is my personal repository; the license you receive to my code is from me and not from my employer. See the LICENSE file for details.