Suppose you have a huge file that you only wnat to download a few parts of it in Python, parse it around like a tar file, and then process the rest as you please, seeking as needs be the case. Unfortunately, I recon that there are no libraries to do this in Python. Well, at least I could find any. If you want to do this processing in Python, your only choice is to download the file whole, process it, and continue. This is especially annoying if your sole destination is to just upload it to another server Failing that, maybe there are some Linux FUSE libraries to make a remote file appear as if it is a local file on the filesystem level, eh? Yeah, that sounds plausible, unfortunately I couldn’t find any sane such libraries for read-only access. Much of the attention given those search terms and concepts seems to be around WebDAV, which we know never became popular enough to be worthy of being considered in practice.
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