code: def open_remote(
      path,
      mode="r",
      buffering=-1,
      encoding=None,
      newline=None,
      closefd=True,
      opener=None,
  ):
      """
      Wrapper around open() method that can handle remote paths like `gs://...`
      off Google Cloud using Tensorflow's IO helpers.
  
      buffering, encoding, newline, closefd, and opener are ignored for remote files
  
      This enables us to do:
      with open_remote('gs://.....', mode='w+') as f:
          do something with the file f, whether or not we have local access to it
      """
      if is_remote_path(path):
          return gfile.GFile(path, mode=mode)
      return open(
          path,
          mode,
          buffering=buffering,
          encoding=encoding,
          newline=newline,
          closefd=closefd,
          opener=opener,
      )
  
file_path: DeepSpeech/training/deepspeech_training/util/io.py
imports: import os
  from tensorflow.io import gfile
label_desc: Use image node_id 4 for calling a global function with example usage: open_remote(path, mode, buffering, encoding, newline, closefd, opener) and returns: open, gfile