robot.utils.filereader
¶
FileReader
¶
Utility to ease reading different kind of source files.
Supports different sources where to read the data:
-
The source can be a path to a file, either as a string or as a
pathlib.Path
instance. The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded. -
Alternatively the source can be an already opened file object, including a StringIO or BytesIO object. The file can contain either Unicode text or UTF-8 encoded bytes.
-
The third options is giving the source as Unicode text directly. This requires setting
accept_text=True
when creating the reader.
In all cases bytes are automatically decoded to Unicode and possible BOM removed.