msl.io package

Read and write data files.

msl.io.read(file, **kwargs)

Read a file that has a Reader implemented.

Parameters:

• file (path-like or file-like) – The file to read. For example, it could be a str representing a file system path or a stream.

• **kwargs – All keyword arguments are passed to the Reader.can_read() and Reader.read() methods.

Returns:

Reader – The data from the file.

Raises:

OSError – If no Reader exists to be able to read the specified file.

msl.io.read_table(file, **kwargs)

Read data in a table format from a file.

A table has the following properties:

1. The first row is a header.

2. All rows have the same number of columns.

3. All data values in a column have the same data type.

Parameters:

• file (path-like or file-like) – The file to read. For example, it could be a str representing a file system path or a stream. If file is a Google Sheets spreadsheet then file must end with .gsheet even if the ID of the spreadsheet is specified.

• **kwargs – If the file is an Excel spreadsheet then the keyword arguments are passed to read_table_excel(). If a Google Sheets spreadsheet then the keyword arguments are passed to read_table_gsheets(). Otherwise, all keyword arguments are passed to read_table_text().

Returns:

Dataset – The table as a Dataset. The header is included as metadata.

msl.io.version_info = version_info(major=0, minor=2, micro=0, releaselevel='dev0')

Contains the version information as a (major, minor, micro, releaselevel) tuple.

Type:

namedtuple