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How to use xbmcvfs.File() and io.open()? - Wimpie - 2018-01-31
Hi,
I want my addon to be able to read text files on nfs:// and smb:// shares.
For this I need xbmcvfs.File().
So what is the xbmcvfs.File() equivalent of:
python:import io
with io.open('foo.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as fo:
text = fo.read()
Thanks!
PS: I read the sticky, but I don't even know where to start to combine these 2 'open' functions...
RE: How to use xbmcvfs.File() and io.open()? - Roman_V_M - 2018-01-31
Syntax is the same for Python 2 and 3:
python:from contextlib import closing
from xbmcvfs import File
with closing(File('/path/to/file')) as fo:
text = fo.read()
However, the big catch is that the current Python 2 implementation returns a binary string, but in Python 3 .read() methods decodes text using UTF-8 encoding (that is the default for Python 3). For binary data you need to use .readBytes().
I can also suggest this helper library https://github.com/romanvm/kodi.six that normalizes string handling in Python 2 and 3.