samredai commented on a change in pull request #4081:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/4081#discussion_r803831390



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File path: python/src/iceberg/io/base.py
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@@ -142,12 +158,25 @@ class FileIO(ABC):
 
     @abstractmethod
     def new_input(self, location: str) -> InputFile:
-        """Get an InputFile instance to read bytes from the file at the given 
location"""
+        """Get an InputFile instance to read bytes from the file at the given 
location
+
+        Args:
+            location(str): The URI to the file
+        """
 
     @abstractmethod
     def new_output(self, location: str) -> OutputFile:
-        """Get an OutputFile instance to write bytes to the file at the given 
location"""
+        """Get an OutputFile instance to write bytes to the file at the given 
location
+
+        Args:
+            location(str): The URI to the file

Review comment:
       As it stands the user would have to use `file://...` but I totally 
agree. The code here should make an assumption that if the URI is missing a 
scheme that it's just a local filepath. I'll update the code and change the 
docstring to say "A URI or a path to a local file"




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