examples/research_projects/lxmert/utils.py/cached_path
def cached_path(
    url_or_filename,
    cache_dir=None,
    force_download=False,
    proxies=None,
    resume_download=False,
    user_agent=None,
    extract_compressed_file=False,
    force_extract=False,
    local_files_only=False,
):
    if cache_dir is None:
        cache_dir = TRANSFORMERS_CACHE
    if isinstance(url_or_filename, Path):
        url_or_filename = str(url_or_filename)
    if isinstance(cache_dir, Path):
        cache_dir = str(cache_dir)

    if is_remote_url(url_or_filename):
        # URL, so get it from the cache (downloading if necessary)
        output_path = get_from_cache(
            url_or_filename,
            cache_dir=cache_dir,
            force_download=force_download,
            proxies=proxies,
            resume_download=resume_download,
            user_agent=user_agent,
            local_files_only=local_files_only,
        )
    elif os.path.exists(url_or_filename):
        # File, and it exists.
        output_path = url_or_filename
    elif urlparse(url_or_filename).scheme == "":
        # File, but it doesn't exist.
        raise EnvironmentError("file {} not found".format(url_or_filename))
    else:
        # Something unknown
        raise ValueError("unable to parse {} as a URL or as a local path".format(url_or_filename))

    if extract_compressed_file:
        if not is_zipfile(output_path) and not tarfile.is_tarfile(output_path):
            return output_path

        # Path where we extract compressed archives
        # We avoid '.' in dir name and add "-extracted" at the end: "./model.zip" => "./model-zip-extracted/"
        output_dir, output_file = os.path.split(output_path)
        output_extract_dir_name = output_file.replace(".", "-") + "-extracted"
        output_path_extracted = os.path.join(output_dir, output_extract_dir_name)

        if os.path.isdir(output_path_extracted) and os.listdir(output_path_extracted) and not force_extract:
            return output_path_extracted

        # Prevent parallel extractions
        lock_path = output_path + ".lock"
        with FileLock(lock_path):
            shutil.rmtree(output_path_extracted, ignore_errors=True)
            os.makedirs(output_path_extracted)
            if is_zipfile(output_path):
                with ZipFile(output_path, "r") as zip_file:
                    zip_file.extractall(output_path_extracted)
                    zip_file.close()
            elif tarfile.is_tarfile(output_path):
                tar_file = tarfile.open(output_path)
                tar_file.extractall(output_path_extracted)
                tar_file.close()
            else:
                raise EnvironmentError("Archive format of {} could not be identified".format(output_path))

        return output_path_extracted

    return output_path