load_file

Loads data from a file path by reading its bytes and delegating to load_str_bytes, with automatic protocol detection based on file extensions like .json or .pkl.

def load_file(
    path: str | Path,
    content_type: str | None = None,
    encoding: str = 'utf8',
    proto: Protocol | None = None,
    allow_pickle: bool = False,
    json_loads: Callable[[str], Any] = json.loads
) - > Any

Loads and parses the content of a file from a given path based on its extension or a specified protocol.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
path	`str	Path`
content_type	`str	None` = None
encoding	str = 'utf8'	The character encoding used to decode the file bytes into a string.
proto	`Protocol	None` = None
allow_pickle	bool = False	Whether to allow the loading of pickled data, which can be a security risk.
json_loads	Callable[[str], Any] = json.loads	The JSON loading function to use when parsing JSON content.

Returns

Type	Description
Any	The deserialized data from the file, such as a dictionary from JSON or a Python object from a pickle file.