aiofile 3.8.6

High-level API

async_open helper

Helper mimics python file-like objects, it returns file-like objects with similar but async methods.

Supported methods:

• async def read(length = -1) - reading chunk from file, when length is -1, will be reading file to the end.

• async def write(data) - writing chunk to file

• def seek(offset) - setting file pointer position

• def tell() - returns current file pointer position

• async def readline(size=-1, newline="\n") - read chunks until newline or EOF. Since version 3.7.0 __aiter__ returns LineReader.

  This method is suboptimal for small lines because it doesn’t reuse read buffer. When you want to read file by lines please avoid using async_open use LineReader instead.

• def __aiter__() -> LineReader - iterator over lines.

• def iter_chunked(chunk_size: int = 32768) -> Reader - iterator over chunks.

• .file property contains AIOFile object

Basic example:

import asyncio
from pathlib import Path
from tempfile import gettempdir

from aiofile import async_open

tmp_filename = Path(gettempdir()) / "hello.txt"

async def main():
    async with async_open(tmp_filename, 'w+') as afp:
        await afp.write("Hello ")
        await afp.write("world")
        afp.seek(0)

        print(await afp.read())

        await afp.write("Hello from\nasync world")
        print(await afp.readline())
        print(await afp.readline())

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main())

Example without context manager:

import asyncio
import atexit
import os
from tempfile import mktemp

from aiofile import async_open


TMP_NAME = mktemp()
atexit.register(os.unlink, TMP_NAME)


async def main():
    afp = await async_open(TMP_NAME, "w")
    await afp.write("Hello")
    await afp.close()


asyncio.run(main())
assert open(TMP_NAME, "r").read() == "Hello"

Concatenate example program (cat):

import asyncio
import sys
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from pathlib import Path

from aiofile import async_open

parser = ArgumentParser(
    description="Read files line by line using asynchronous io API"
)
parser.add_argument("file_name", nargs="+", type=Path)

async def main(arguments):
    for src in arguments.file_name:
        async with async_open(src, "r") as afp:
            async for line in afp:
                sys.stdout.write(line)


asyncio.run(main(parser.parse_args()))

Copy file example program (cp):

import asyncio
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from pathlib import Path

from aiofile import async_open

parser = ArgumentParser(
    description="Copying files using asynchronous io API"
)
parser.add_argument("source", type=Path)
parser.add_argument("dest", type=Path)
parser.add_argument("--chunk-size", type=int, default=65535)


async def main(arguments):
    async with async_open(arguments.source, "rb") as src, \
               async_open(arguments.dest, "wb") as dest:
        async for chunk in src.iter_chunked(arguments.chunk_size):
            await dest.write(chunk)


asyncio.run(main(parser.parse_args()))

Example with opening already open file pointer:

import asyncio
from typing import IO, Any
from aiofile import async_open


async def main(fp: IO[Any]):
    async with async_open(fp) as afp:
        await afp.write("Hello from\nasync world")
        print(await afp.readline())


with open("test.txt", "w+") as fp:
    asyncio.run(main(fp))

Linux native aio doesn’t support reading and writing special files (e.g. procfs/sysfs/unix pipes/etc.), so you can perform operations with these files using compatible context objects.

import asyncio
from aiofile import async_open
from caio import thread_aio_asyncio
from contextlib import AsyncExitStack


async def main():
    async with AsyncExitStack() as stack:

        # Custom context should be reused
        ctx = await stack.enter_async_context(
            thread_aio_asyncio.AsyncioContext()
        )

        # Open special file with custom context
        src = await stack.enter_async_context(
            async_open("/proc/cpuinfo", "r", context=ctx)
        )

        # Open regular file with default context
        dest = await stack.enter_async_context(
            async_open("/tmp/cpuinfo", "w")
        )

        # Copying file content line by line
        async for line in src:
            await dest.write(line)


asyncio.run(main())

Low-level API

The AIOFile class is a low-level interface for asynchronous file operations, and the read and write methods accept an offset=0 in bytes at which the operation will be performed.

This allows you to do many independent IO operations on an once open file without moving the virtual carriage.

For example, you may make 10 concurrent HTTP requests by specifying the Range header, and asynchronously write one opened file, while the offsets must either be calculated manually, or use 10 instances of Writer with specified initial offsets.

In order to provide sequential reading and writing, there is Writer, Reader and LineReader. Keep in mind async_open is not the same as AIOFile, it provides a similar interface for file operations, it simulates methods like read or write as it is implemented in the built-in open.

import asyncio
from aiofile import AIOFile


async def main():
    async with AIOFile("hello.txt", 'w+') as afp:
        payload = "Hello world\n"

        await asyncio.gather(
            *[afp.write(payload, offset=i * len(payload)) for i in range(10)]
        )

        await afp.fsync()

        assert await afp.read(len(payload) * 10) == payload * 10

asyncio.run(main())

The Low-level API in fact is just little bit sugared caio API.

import asyncio
from aiofile import AIOFile


async def main():
    async with AIOFile("/tmp/hello.txt", 'w+') as afp:
        await afp.write("Hello ")
        await afp.write("world", offset=7)
        await afp.fsync()

        print(await afp.read())


loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main())

import asyncio
from aiofile import AIOFile, Reader, Writer


async def main():
    async with AIOFile("/tmp/hello.txt", 'w+') as afp:
        writer = Writer(afp)
        reader = Reader(afp, chunk_size=8)

        await writer("Hello")
        await writer(" ")
        await writer("World")
        await afp.fsync()

        async for chunk in reader:
            print(chunk)


loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main())

import asyncio
from aiofile import AIOFile, LineReader, Writer


async def main():
    async with AIOFile("/tmp/hello.txt", 'w+') as afp:
        writer = Writer(afp)

        await writer("Hello")
        await writer(" ")
        await writer("World")
        await writer("\n")
        await writer("\n")
        await writer("From async world")
        await afp.fsync()

        async for line in LineReader(afp):
            print(line)


loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main())

Async CSV Dict Reader

import asyncio
import io
from csv import DictReader

from aiofile import AIOFile, LineReader


class AsyncDictReader:
    def __init__(self, afp, **kwargs):
        self.buffer = io.BytesIO()
        self.file_reader = LineReader(
            afp, line_sep=kwargs.pop('line_sep', '\n'),
            chunk_size=kwargs.pop('chunk_size', 4096),
            offset=kwargs.pop('offset', 0),
        )
        self.reader = DictReader(
            io.TextIOWrapper(
                self.buffer,
                encoding=kwargs.pop('encoding', 'utf-8'),
                errors=kwargs.pop('errors', 'replace'),
            ), **kwargs,
        )
        self.line_num = 0

    def __aiter__(self):
        return self

    async def __anext__(self):
        if self.line_num == 0:
            header = await self.file_reader.readline()
            self.buffer.write(header)

        line = await self.file_reader.readline()

        if not line:
            raise StopAsyncIteration

        self.buffer.write(line)
        self.buffer.seek(0)

        try:
            result = next(self.reader)
        except StopIteration as e:
            raise StopAsyncIteration from e

        self.buffer.seek(0)
        self.buffer.truncate(0)
        self.line_num = self.reader.line_num

        return result


async def main():
    async with AIOFile('sample.csv', 'rb') as afp:
        async for item in AsyncDictReader(afp):
            print(item)


asyncio.run(main())