view common/file.py @ 362:00d57d3f33eb

Added common.misc.utilsdir
author Joseph Turian <turian@iro.umontreal.ca>
date Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:14:42 -0400
parents 430c9e92cd23
children 9e84e8a20a75
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import gzip, bz2

def myopen(filename, mode="r", bufsize=-1):
    """
    open(), detecting .gz and .bz2 file suffixes
    """
    if filename[-3:] == ".gz":
        return gzip.open(filename, mode, bufsize)
    elif filename[-4:] == ".bz2":
        return bz2.open(filename, mode, bufsize)
    else:
        return open(filename, mode, bufsize)