Support File-like objects instead of just path strings

[j6k4m8]

I would love to be able to pass a python File object (with read interfaces etc) rather than just a file on disk: I sometimes have these files in RAM and can't currently read them. It seems to me that this would be a pretty simple fix here but is there something I'm missing?

[ofajardo]

Unfortunately it's not that easy: the underlying C library librdata takes only a file on disk. The line you suggest is only a check, because if something which is not a path is passed downstream an error arises, therefore removing it doesn't fix anything.

The only way is to change the C library first. You can submit an issue to librdata if you like, if they do the change, I adapt pyreadr to accommodate it.

Such a change however is not trivial as it may break applications depending on the C library. A similar thing has been proposed for a similar library Readstat and the pull request is stale since a more than one year (WizardMac/ReadStat#179).

For the time being please save those files to disk and then process them.

[j6k4m8]

Got it — thank you for the clear explanation! Happy to close this issue if you'd like :)