Functions for saving and loading python objects using pickle with gzip compression.

gzip_pickle.py

import pickle
import gzip

def save(object, filename, protocol = 0):
        """Saves a compressed object to disk
        """
        file = gzip.GzipFile(filename, 'wb')
        file.write(pickle.dumps(object, protocol))
        file.close()

def load(filename):
        """Loads a compressed object from disk
        """
        file = gzip.GzipFile(filename, 'rb')
        buffer = ""
        while True:
                data = file.read()
                if data == "":
                        break
                buffer += data
        object = pickle.loads(buffer)
        file.close()
        return object

def load(filename):
        """Loads a compressed object from disk
        """
        file = gzip.GzipFile(filename, 'rb')
        # buffer = ""
        # while True:
        #         data = file.read()
        #         if data == "":
        #                 break
        #         buffer += data
        # object = pickle.loads(buffer)
        data = file.read()
        object = pickle.loads(data)
        file.close()
        return object