Variants of ensure functions focused on loading about pystow HOT 3 CLOSED

Great suggestion! Several of the functions you might want to use are already available through pystow.utils. I’ll try to improve the docs to make this a bit more obvious.

Was the a specific one you wanted to use?

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I suppose it would be equally useful to have a corresponding variant for all the ensure_* functions (the ones that specify a specific file format) but personally I'd probably use json and pickle (this doesn't exist yet) most often.

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Okay on a second read I think I understood what you were asking for and made a demo in #37 that just address CSV, pickle, and JSON opening. This doesn't affect any existing functionality so I'll make a release (https://github.com/cthoyt/pystow/releases/tag/v0.4.1, https://pypi.org/project/pystow/0.4.1/) so you can try it out.

The archetype is pretty general and could be pretty easily extended to other ensure_* functions to implement corresponding open_* functions.

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