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