From 85630ea7e2cc356b161335238ec6be068f61dd12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Himmelstein <daniel.himmelstein@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 11:21:31 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: Support bz2 compression in PY2 for c engine

Closes https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/14874
---
 pandas/parser.pyx | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/parser.pyx b/pandas/parser.pyx
index d94a4ef278dee..c76620cdc647d 100644
--- a/pandas/parser.pyx
+++ b/pandas/parser.pyx
@@ -621,8 +621,9 @@ cdef class TextReader:
                 if isinstance(source, basestring) or PY3:
                     source = bz2.BZ2File(source, 'rb')
                 else:
-                    raise ValueError('Python 2 cannot read bz2 from open file '
-                                     'handle')
+                    content = source.read()
+                    source.close()
+                    source = compat.StringIO(bz2.decompress(content))
             elif self.compression == 'zip':
                 import zipfile
                 zip_file = zipfile.ZipFile(source)