datapad.io.read_text

datapad.io.read_text(path_or_paths, lines=True)

Construct a Sequence from text files

Parameters:

• path_or_paths – str or list of strings A path, or list of paths. Paths may contain glob patterns like “data/metadata-*-a.txt”

• lines – bool (default: True) If True, each element of the sequence comes from reading a line in the text file. If False, each element in sequence comes from the entire text file.

>>> seq = read_text(["data/meta-*.txt"], lines=True)
>>> seq.collect() 
["foo_a", "foo_b", "bar_a", "bar_b"]

>>> seq = read_text(["data/meta-*.txt"], lines=False)
>>> seq.collect() 
["foo_a\nfoo_b", "bar_a\nbar_b"]