bundles / IPython 9.18.0.dev / IPython / utils / openpy / read_py_url

function

`IPython.utils.openpy:read_py_url`

source: /IPython/utils/openpy.py:84

Signature

def read_py_url(url: str, errors: str = replace, skip_encoding_cookie: bool = True) → str

Summary

Read a Python file from a URL, using the encoding declared inside the file.

Parameters

url : str: The URL from which to fetch the file.
errors : str: How to handle decoding errors in the file. Options are the same as for bytes.decode(), but here 'replace' is the default.
skip_encoding_cookie : bool: If True (the default), and the encoding declaration is found in the first two lines, that line will be excluded from the output.

Returns

: A unicode string containing the contents of the file.

Aliases

IPython.lib.demo.openpy.read_py_url