Display pickled pandas dataframes

pidi.py

#! /usr/bin/env python

from __future__ import print_function

import webbrowser
import cPickle as pickle
import tempfile
import argparse


def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Display .df.pickle files')
    parser.add_argument('file', help='path to the file to display')
    args = parser.parse_args()

    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix='.html', delete=False) as fout:
        with open(args.file, 'r') as fin:
            df = pickle.load(fin)
            print(df.to_html(), file=fout)
        print(fout.name)
        webbrowser.open('file://' + fout.name)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()