westonpace commented on a change in pull request #87:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-cookbook/pull/87#discussion_r737850103
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@@ -577,4 +577,122 @@ The content of the file can be read back to a
:class:`pyarrow.Table` using
.. testoutput::
- {'a': [1, 3, 5, 7], 'b': [2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0], 'c': [1, 2, 3, 4]}
\ No newline at end of file
+ {'a': [1, 3, 5, 7], 'b': [2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0], 'c': [1, 2, 3, 4]}
+
+Writing Compressed Data
+=======================
+
+Arrow provides support for writing files in compressed formats,
+both for formats that provide compression natively like Parquet or Feather,
+and for formats that don't support compression out of the box like CSV.
+
+Given a table:
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ table = pa.table([
+ pa.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
+ ], names=["numbers"])
+
+Writing compressed Parquet or Feather data is driven by the
+``compression`` argument to the :func:`pyarrow.feather.write_feather` and
+:func:`pyarrow.parquet.write_table` functions:
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ pa.feather.write_feather(table, "compressed.feather",
+ compression="lz4")
+ pa.parquet.write_table(table, "compressed.parquet",
+ compression="lz4")
+
+You can refer to each of those functions' documentation for a complete
+list of supported compression formats.
+
+.. note::
+
+ Arrow actually uses compression by default when writing
+ Parquet or Feather files. Feather is compressed using ``lz4``
+ by default and Parquet uses ``snappy`` by default.
+
+For formats that don't support compression natively, like CSV,
+it's possible to save compressed data using
+:class:`pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream`:
+
+.. testcode::
+
+ with pa.CompressedOutputStream("compressed.csv.gz", "gzip") as out:
+ pa.csv.write_csv(table, out)
+
+This requires decompressing the file when reading it back,
+which can be done using :class:`pyarrow.CompressedInputStream`
+as explained in the next recipe.
+
+Reading Compressed Data
+=======================
+
+Arrow provides support for reading compressed files,
+both for formats that provide it natively like Parquet or Feather,
+and for files in formats that don't support compression natively,
+like CSV, but have been compressed by an application.
+
+Reading compressed formats that have native support for compression
+doesn't require any special handling. We can for example read back
+the Parquet and Feather files we wrote in the previous recipe
+simply invoking :meth:`pyarrow.feather.read_table` and
Review comment:
```suggestion
by simply invoking :meth:`pyarrow.feather.read_table` and
```
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