How to save a pandas dataframe in gzipped format directly?

Question

I have a pandas data frame, called df.

I want to save this in a gzipped format. One way to do this is the following:

import gzip
import pand         


        

Answer 1

Better serialization with compression has recently been added to Pandas. (Starting in pandas 0.20.0.) Here is an example of how it can be used:

df.to_csv("my_file.gz", compression="gzip")

For more information, such as different forms of compression available, check out the docs.