Minimal example with Snakebite

Testing snakebite.ipynb

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   "source": [
    "Initiate `snakebite` client"
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   "source": [
    "from snakebite.client import Client\n",
    "client = Client(\"my.host.com\", 8020, effective_user='datascientist', \n",
    "                use_datanode_hostname=True)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "List the items in the directory and collect the files"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 2,
   "metadata": {
    "collapsed": false
   },
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "['/user/datascientist/da-foobar-2.txt', '/user/datascientist/da-foobar.txt']"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 2,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "files = []\n",
    "for x in client.ls(['/user/datascientist']):\n",
    "    if x['file_type'] == 'f':\n",
    "        files.append(x['path'])\n",
    "files"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "Print the files (using `join`)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 3,
   "metadata": {
    "collapsed": false
   },
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'Yet another file\\nmy file is this\\ntest file\\nmy file is this\\ntest file'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 3,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "''.join(client.text(files))"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "Or using a loop"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 4,
   "metadata": {
    "collapsed": false,
    "scrolled": true
   },
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "Yet another file\n",
      "my file is this\n",
      "test file\n",
      "\n",
      "my file is this\n",
      "test file\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "for cat in client.text(files):\n",
    "    print(cat)"
   ]
  }
 ],
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