# pandas.read_msgpack

`pandas.``read_msgpack`(path_or_buf, encoding='utf-8', iterator=False, **kwargs)

  Load msgpack pandas object from the specified file path.

  Deprecated since version 0.25.0.

  read_msgpack is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. It is recommended to use pyarrow for on-the-wire transmission of pandas objects.

  Parameters:

  path_or_buf : str, path object or file-like object

  > Any valid string path is acceptable. The string could be a URL. Valid URL schemes include http, ftp, s3, and file. For file URLs, a host is expected.

  > If you want to pass in a path object, pandas accepts any `os.PathLike`.

  > By file-like object, we refer to objects with a `read()` method, such as a file handler (e.g. via builtin `open` function) or `StringIO`.

  encoding : Encoding for decoding msgpack str type

  iterator : boolean, if True, return an iterator to the unpacker

  > (default is False)

  Returns: | obj : same type as object stored in file

  Notes

  read_msgpack is only guaranteed to be backwards compatible to pandas 0.20.3.

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