Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: lz4ext
Version: 0.7.2
Summary: LZ4 Bindings for Python
Home-page: https://github.com/sigman78/python-lz4
Author: Steeve Morin, Anton Stuk
Author-email: steeve.morin@gmail.com, sigman@ioupg.com
License: UNKNOWN
Description: ==========
        python-lz4ext (former python-lz4)
        ==========
        
        .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/sigman78/python-lz4.svg?branch=master
            :target: https://travis-ci.org/sigman78/python-lz4
        
        Overview
        ========
        This package provides bindings for the `lz4 compression library <http://code.google.com/p/lz4/>`_ by Yann Collet.
        
        Code specific to this project is covered by the `BSD 3-Clause License <http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause>`_
        
        Install
        =======
        The package is hosted on `PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lz4>`_::
        
            $ pip install lz4
            $ easy_install lz4
        
        Usage
        =====
        The library is pretty simple to use::
        
            >>> import lz4
            >>> compressed_data = lz4.dumps(data)
            >>> data == lz4.loads(compressed_data)
            True
            >>>
        
        Methods and Constants
        =====================
        The bindings provides some aliases too::
        
            >>> import lz4
            >>> lz4.LZ4_compress == lz4.compress == lz4.dumps
            True
            >>> lz4.LZ4_uncompress == lz4.uncompress == z4.decompress == lz4.loads
            True
            >>> lz4.VERSION == lz4.__version__  # e.g. "0.7.0"
            True
            >>>
        
        Is it fast ?
        ============
        Yes. Here are the results on my 2011 Macbook Pro i7 with lz4.c as input data: ::
        
            $ python tests/bench.py
            Data Size:
              Input: 24779
              LZ4: 10152 (0.41)
              Snappy: 9902 (0.40)
              LZ4 / Snappy: 1.025247
            Benchmark: 200000 calls
              LZ4 Compression: 9.737272s
              Snappy Compression: 18.012336s
              LZ4 Decompression: 2.686854s
              Snappy Decompression : 5.146867s
        
        Important note
        ==============
        Because LZ4 doesn't define a container format, the python bindings will insert the original data size as an integer at the start of the compressed payload, like most bindings do anyway (Java...)
        
        
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Programming Language :: C
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3
