Python (2 and 3) bindings for the WebHDFS (and HttpFS)
API, supporting both secure and insecure clusters. Command line interface to
transfer files and start an interactive client shell, with aliases for
convenient name-node URL caching. Additional functionality through optional
extensions: Avro, to read and write Avro files directly from HDFS. data-frame,
to load and save Pandas data-frames. Kerberos, to support Kerberos
authenticated clusters.
