hdfs

Problem description

Be able to read public GCS files without providing credentials.

Steps/code to reproduce the problem

path = "gs://tensorflow-nightly/prod/tensorflow/release/ubuntu_16/gpu_py37_full/nightly_release/18/20190813-010608/github/tensorflow/pip_pkg/tf_nightly_gpu-1.15.0.dev20190813-cp37-cp37m-linux_x86_64.whl"

import smart_open
try:
    f = smart_open.s

In #2909 the method .set_database() has been standardized, but this does not include making it always available in all backends. There are several backends, such as SQLAlchemy backends, File backends or clickhouse, that don't implement it, and don't let changing the backend.

The reason in most cases seems to be that the underlying connection object doesn't support changing the database. But i

Similar to how unix ls works, param could be -t

Given the new key-value store event stream, it'd be nice to have something like:

$ skein kv events <application id> [options...]

where the process blocks, and logs the event stream to the console until interrupted. This would be useful for debugging, as well as demos.