iohann.s.titov@gmail.com Ivan S. Titov smart_open opens cloud-storage paths (S3, GCS, Azure, HTTP) and compressed local files (gzip / bzip2 / zstandard) via the same file-like interface as the builtin open(). Optional cloud backends not pulled by default; they're behind PyPI extras. Direct dep of dev-python/weasel. piskvorky/smart_open smart-open