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

You can dump dataframe into string using pickle.dumps and then write it on disk with import gzip

file = gzip.GzipFile('filename.pickle.gz', 'wb', 3)
file.write(pickle.dumps(df))
file.close()