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layout: overview
slug: nemo-curator/nemo\_curator/utils/client\_utils
title: nemo\_curator.utils.client\_utils
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## Module Contents
### Classes
| Name | Description |
| --------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [`FSPath`](#nemo_curator-utils-client_utils-FSPath) | Wrapper that combines filesystem and path for convenient file operations. |
### Functions
| Name | Description |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
| [`is_remote_url`](#nemo_curator-utils-client_utils-is_remote_url) | - |
### API
```python
class nemo_curator.utils.client_utils.FSPath(
fs: fsspec.AbstractFileSystem,
path: str
)
```
Wrapper that combines filesystem and path for convenient file operations.
```python
nemo_curator.utils.client_utils.FSPath.__repr__()
```
```python
nemo_curator.utils.client_utils.FSPath.__str__()
```
```python
nemo_curator.utils.client_utils.FSPath.as_posix() -> str
```
```python
nemo_curator.utils.client_utils.FSPath.get_bytes_cat_ranges(
part_size: int = 10 * 1024 ** 2
) -> bytes
```
Read object into memory using fsspec's cat\_ranges.
Modified from [https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/blob/ba64909422016ba389ab06ed01d7578336c19e8e/python/dask\_cudf/dask\_cudf/io/json.py#L26-L34](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/blob/ba64909422016ba389ab06ed01d7578336c19e8e/python/dask_cudf/dask_cudf/io/json.py#L26-L34)
```python
nemo_curator.utils.client_utils.FSPath.open(
mode: str = 'rb',
kwargs = {}
) -> fsspec.spec.AbstractBufferedFile
```
```python
nemo_curator.utils.client_utils.is_remote_url(
url: str
) -> bool
```