biom.load_table

biom.load_table(f)

Load a Table from a path

Parameters:

fstr or file-like object

The entity to parse

Returns:

Table

Raises:

IOError

If the path does not exist

TypeError

If the data in the path does not appear to be a BIOM table

Examples

Parse a table from a path. BIOM will attempt to determine if the fhe file is either in TSV, HDF5, JSON, gzip’d JSON or gzip’d TSV and parse accordingly:

>>> from biom import load_table
>>> table = load_table('path/to/table.biom')