spit slurp
Write text to a file with spit and read from a file with slurp.
By default files are assumed to be encoded in UTF-8. You can specify an
alternative encoding via the encoding keyword argument. For a full list of
encodings see Standard Encodings.
Installation
pip install spitslurpUsage
from spitslurp import spit, slurp
txt = u'Hello\nWorld'
# Write a unicode string to a file, by default encoded as UTF-8 and
# truncating the file prior to writing
spit('path/to/file.txt', txt)
txt = u'Hello\nLatin1'
# Append to a file (if it exists) and specify encoding as Latin 1
spit('path/to/file.txt', txt, append=True, encoding='latin1')
# Read the entire contents of a file into a unicode string. Assumes the
# file is in UTF-8 by default
txt = slurp('path/to/file.txt')
# Specify an encoding
txt = slurp('path/to/file.txt', encoding='latin1')TODO
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