rotifer.core.functions.open_compressed

rotifer.core.functions.open_compressed(filename, mode='r', encoding='utf8')

Open a bzip2 or a gzip file as if it was uncompressed.

Usage:

import rotifer.core.functions as rcf fh = open_compressed(filename, “rb”)

Parameters:

filename:

Path to the compressed file

mode: string, default ‘rb’

Access mode

enconding: string, default ‘utf-8’

File enconding