Support URL mirrors in the Pooch class
dstansby opened this issue · 2 comments
Description of the desired feature:
It would be great to support data mirrors, ie. having values for base_url where the second, third etc. values can be used if the first URL isn't available.
Are you willing to help implement and maintain this feature?
Possibly
Hi @dstansby thanks for suggesting this! I can see why this would be a nice feature to have.
One way to implement this would be allow base_url to take a list/tuple/set and then put this part of pooch.Pooch.fetch in a for loop with try: ... except:... blocks:
Line 587 in da2d93c
I don't have a lot of time to implement this right now but would gladly review (or ask someone else to review) if you're willing to give this a try.
This would also be restricted to the Pooch class, at least for now. We can think about adding it to retrieve later is there is a desire.