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class Loader(object):
"""
Base class for ARIA loaders.
Loaders extract a document by consuming a document source.
Though the extracted document is often textual (a string or string-like
data), loaders may provide any format.
"""
def open(self):
pass
def close(self):
pass
def load(self):
raise NotImplementedError