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compress_pickle
The standard pickle package provides an excellent default tool for serializing arbitrary python objects and storing them to disk. Standard python also includes broad set of data compression packages. compress_pickle
provides an interface to the standard pickle.dump
, pickle.load
, pickle.dumps
and pickle.loads
functions, but wraps them in order to direct the serialized data through one of the standard compression packages. This way you can seemlessly serialize data to disk or to any file-like object in a compressed way.
compress_pickle
supports python >= 3.6. If you must support python 3.5, install compress_pickle==v1.1.1
.
Supported compression protocols:
Furthermore, compress_pickle
supports the lz4
compression protocol, that isn't part of the standard python compression packages. This is provided as an optional extra requirement that can be installed as:
pip install compress_pickle[lz4]
Please refer to the package's documentation for more information
FAQs
Standard pickle, wrapped with standard compression libraries
We found that compress-pickle demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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