save/load compressed pickled objects in python

compressed_pickle.py

import cPickle
import bz2


def save(filename, myobj):
    """
    save object to file using pickle
    
    @param filename: name of destination file
    @type filename: str
    @param myobj: object to save (has to be pickleable)
    @type myobj: obj
    """

    try:
        f = bz2.BZ2File(filename, 'wb')
    except IOError, details:
        sys.stderr.write('File ' + filename + ' cannot be written\n')
        sys.stderr.write(details)
        return

    cPickle.dump(myobj, f, protocol=2)
    f.close()



def load(filename):
    """
    Load from filename using pickle
    
    @param filename: name of file to load from
    @type filename: str
    """

    try:
        f = bz2.BZ2File(filename, 'rb')
    except IOError, details:
        sys.stderr.write('File ' + filename + ' cannot be read\n')
        sys.stderr.write(details)
        return

    myobj = cPickle.load(f)
    f.close()
    return myobj

Can we use decompress in flask app to load model ?