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Python bindings for the snappy google library
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python-snappy
=============

Python library for the snappy compression library from Google.
This library is distributed under the New BSD License
(https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause).

Dependencies
============

* cramjam

* Supports Python >=3.8

Install
=======

Install it from PyPI:

::

pip install python-snappy

Run tests
=========

::

# run python snappy tests
nosetest test_snappy.py

# support for cffi backend
nosetest test_snappy_cffi.py

Benchmarks
==========

See ``cramjam`` for speed tests.

Commandline usage
=================

You can invoke Python Snappy to compress or decompress files or streams from
the commandline after installation as follows

Compressing and decompressing a file:

::

$ python -m snappy -c uncompressed_file compressed_file.snappy
$ python -m snappy -d compressed_file.snappy uncompressed_file

Compressing and decompressing a stream:

::

$ cat uncompressed_data | python -m snappy -c > compressed_data.snappy
$ cat compressed_data.snappy | python -m snappy -d > uncompressed_data

You can get help by running

::

$ python -m snappy --help

Snappy - compression library from Google (c)
https://google.github.io/snappy