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This package provides a way to delay opening files until the something is written to the file handle. This can be convenient when opening a large number of files of which most of them will not be frequently used. To deal with resource limits a queue is used from which, when full, the least frequent file is closed.
The software is distributed via PyPI_, it can be installed with pip
:
::
pip install jit_open
From source
The source is hosted on GitHub_, to install the latest development version, use
the following commands.
::
git clone https://git.lumc.nl/j.f.j.laros/jit-open
cd jit_open
pip install .
Usage
-----
In the following example, only the file ``used.txt`` is created.
.. code:: python
>>> from jit_open import Handle, Queue
>>>
>>> queue = Queue()
>>> used = Handle("used.txt", queue)
>>> unused = Handle("unused.txt", queue)
>>>
>>> used.write("line 1\n")
>>> used.write("line 2\n")
Library
-------
The library provides the ``Handle`` and ``Queue`` classes.
.. _PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jit-open
.. _GitHub: https://github.com/jfjlaros/jit-open.git
FAQs
Just in time open files
We found that jit-open demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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