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fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss

When I met a friend in a pub recently and I told him I was writing a client library for csvbase, he did laugh a bit. Have I perpetrated a kind of grand, Jia Tan-style jedi mind trick on the maintainers of these dataframe libraries, secretly sneaking csvbase-specific code into their repos? With all this working, the csvbase:// url scheme becomes real and you can use it inside anything which relies on fsspec, which is a surprisingly large number of things.

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