Compress Python Object in Memory

Question

Most tutorials on compressing a file in Python involve immediately writing that file to disk with no intervening compressed python object. I want to know how to pickle and then

Answer 1

Batteries included.

>>> zlib.compress(pickle.dumps([42]))
'x\x9c\xd3\xc8)0\xe0\xf241\xe2J\xd4\x03\x00\x10A\x02\x87'