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                                                                                              snowflake.snowpark.files.SnowflakeFile.readinto¶

                                                                                              SnowflakeFile.readinto(b: bytes | bytearray | array.array) → int[source]¶

                                                                                              From https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#io.RawIOBase.readinto

                                                                                              Read bytes into a pre-allocated, writable bytes-like object b, and return the number of bytes read. For example, b might be a bytearray.

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