Loads any raw data from a file and returns a string by default, or optionally bytes. This is helpful to easily load file data without writing extra boilerplate code just to load raw data from a file.
maci.loadraw -> str | bytes
Basic Example of loading a file using default positional parameter
data = maci.loadraw('my.data')
In this example, we simply load raw data from a file using the loadraw function and pass a string of the filepath to the file as an argument to the function to load the raw data, and assign the returned data to a variable.
Example viewing the data and its original representation
print(data)print(repr(data))
parameters & arguments
Describes all parameter functionality and accepted data types
filename: str | Path
First and only required positional argument. Accepts strings and Path objects
Use this parameter to set loading your data from the file as bytes. Default is disabled as returning file data as a string is more common, but enable it if you need the data returned as bytes.
encoding: str | None
Optional parameter. Accepts strings or None. Default = None
Use this parameter to load the data with the desired codec of the encoded data if needed. The default uses the default of python, so you don't have to use this, but you can if the data is using a specific codec.
