dvc_api_open_remote_version_controlled_file_quickstart.py

1import dvc.api
2
3# Define the path to the data file within the DVC project
4resource_url = 'data/data.xml'
5repo_url = 'https://github.com/iterative/dataset-registry'
6
7# Open the version-controlled file directly from the remote repository
8with dvc.api.open(
9    path=resource_url,
10    repo=repo_url,
11    mode='r'
12) as f:
13    # Read and print the first few lines of the file
14    for i, line in enumerate(f):
15        print(line, end='')
16        if i > 5:
17            break