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Hey all, trying to read a file with the `RemoteFileSystem` .

```rfs = RemoteFileSystem(basepath="<s3://bucket-name/some/path/on/bucket>")
cfg = rfs.read_path("base_config.yaml")```
I end up with `cfg` being a `coroutine`. I imagine this returns bytes but there aren't any helper methods and it's not clear how I'm supposed to proceed? I am interested in reading this file into memory.

That function is asyncronous so something like this is required
```cfg = asyncio.run(rfs.read_path("base_config.yaml"))```


I think these should have a `sync_compatible` annotation since 2.4.2

(which will automatically run it in an event loop for you)

Thank you Nathaniel

This ends up working best I think, your suggestion throws a warning about how `RemoteFileSystem.read_path` was never awaited.

Never really done async await especially in python though. I know go concurrency

```cfg = rfs.read_path("base_config.yaml")
my_yaml = await(cfg)```