NOTICE

The upcoming release of Featuretools 1.0.0 contains several breaking changes. Users are encouraged to test this version prior to release by installing from GitHub:

pip install https://github.com/alteryx/featuretools/archive/woodwork-integration.zip

For details on migrating to the new version, refer to Transitioning to Featuretools Version 1.0. Please report any issues in the Featuretools GitHub repo or by messaging in Alteryx Open Source Slack.

featuretools.save_features¶

featuretools.save_features(features, location=None, profile_name=None)[source]¶

Saves the features list as JSON to a specified filepath/S3 path, writes to an open file, or returns the serialized features as a JSON string. If no file provided, returns a string.

Parameters

features (list[FeatureBase]) – List of Feature definitions.
location (str or FileObject, optional) – The location of where to save the features list which must include the name of the file, or a writeable file handle to write to. If location is None, will return a JSON string of the serialized features. Default: None
profile_name (str, bool) – The AWS profile specified to write to S3. Will default to None and search for AWS credentials. Set to False to use an anonymous profile.

Note

Features saved in one version of Featuretools are not guaranteed to work in another. After upgrading Featuretools, features may need to be generated again.

Example

f1 = ft.Feature(es["log"].ww["product_id"])
f2 = ft.Feature(es["log"].ww["purchased"])
f3 = ft.Feature(es["log"].ww["value"])

features = [f1, f2, f3]

filepath = os.path.join('/Home/features/', 'list.json')
ft.save_features(features, filepath)

f = open(filepath, 'w')
ft.save_features(features, f)

features_str = ft.save_features(features)