What are the advantages of saving file in .pkl format over .txt or .csv format in Python? My question is what is the advantages of .pkl file over .txt & .csv. I got a code from client where some of the dictionaries & data frames are saved in .pkl format..pkl file contains around 30,000,000. I would like to save the data in .txt format. As I'm going to use the data in pyspark and I'm not finding way to read .pkl file in pyspark. So if I can get the benefits of .pkl file over .txt then I will do extensive search for reading .pkl file in pyspark otherwise I will save the data in .txt format & will read it using pyspark. Continue reading...
