OpenAnything

[kj]

In Dive Into Python, Mark Pilgrim offers the function openAnything
that can open for reading "anything" (i.e. local files or URLs).

I was wondering if there was already in the standard Python library
an "official" version of this, that could not only open (for reading)
regular files and URLs, but also other data sources such as compressed
files.

TIA!

kynn

 

[TerryP]

Read this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/445ffc93b0e6a460

and you will likely get the idea.

 

[Paul Boddie]

In Dive Into Python, Mark Pilgrim offers the function openAnything
that can open for reading "anything" (i.e. local files or URLs).

I was wondering if there was already in the standard Python library
an "official" version of this, that could not only open (for reading)
regular files and URLs, but also other data sources such as compressed
files.

Not in the standard library, but available from the package index:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/desktop

The desktop.open function just wraps other mechanisms for opening/
launching files or URLs.

Paul