fsspec loading

[sakshamgoyal-01]

Have you looked into adding fsspec as a dependency? It would allow opening files from any location, including remote files.

my use case:
I want to open msg files from an s3 bucket and extract the content from there. Right now I have to use workarounds to get it working.

def handle_msg(filename: Path | str) -> str:
    import extract_msg
    if isinstance(filename, str) and filename.startswith("s3:"):
        import s3fs
        s3 = s3fs.S3FileSystem()
        with s3.open(filename, 'rb') as f:
            content = f.read()
        msg = extract_msg.Message(io.BytesIO(content))
    else:
        msg = extract_msg.Message(filename)

Using fsspec would mean you can just use any URI to load a file (not just a local path)

[TheElementalOfDestruction]

The module is designed to allow any readable and seakable byte io type to be used in place of a path, making it easy to add custom IO types. This also reduces the number of dependencies being forced onto people when they aren't strictly necessary to how the code functions.

I don't currently see an advantage to adding an additional dependency for what is just a few lines of code for anyone working with unique file locations. I am, however, open to further discussion