Quickly read and write file based on their extension.

• Install
• CLI Usage
• Code Usage
• Supported Extensions

Install

python3 -m pip install --upgrade readwrite

CLI Usage

readf [FILE-PATHS...]

or

readfile <EXTENSION> [EXTENSION-SPECIFIC-OPTIONS] [FILE-PATHS...]

Code Usage

importreadwriteasrw# will use pandas.read_csv(...)df=rw.read("data.csv")
# will use pandas.to_parquet(...)rw.write(df, "data.parquet")

Supported Extensions

Handler	Extensions	Backend	Read	Write
Binary	bin	Python's bytes	✔️	✔️
Csv	csv	pandas	✔️	✔️
Excel	xlsx	pandas	✔️	✔️
H5ad	h5ad	scanpy	✔️	❌
Joblib	joblib	joblib	✔️	✔️
Json	json	Python's json	✔️	✔️
Parquet	parquet	pandas	✔️	✔️
Pickle	pkl, pickle	Python's pickle or pandas	✔️	✔️
Toml	toml	toml	✔️	✔️
Tar	tar	Python's tarfile	✔️	❌
Text	txt	Python's str	✔️	✔️
Yaml	yml, yaml	PyYAML	✔️	✔️
Zarr	zarr	SpatialData	✔️	❌
Zip	zip	Python's zipfile	✔️	❌