commandline
pip install --upgrade cramjam # Requires no Python or system dependencies!
Extremely thin Python bindings to de/compression algorithms in Rust. Allows for using algorithms such as Snappy, without any system dependencies.
This is handy when being used in environments like AWS Lambda, where installing
packages like python-snappy becomes difficult because of system level dependencies.
Some basic benchmarks are available in the benchmarks directory
Available algorithms:
All available for use as:
```python
import cramjam compessed = cramjam.snappy.compress(b"bytes here") cramjam.snappy.decompress(compressed) b"bytes here" ```
Where the API is cramjam.<compression-variant>.compress/decompress and accepts
both bytes and bytearray objects.
Special note!
If you know the length of the de/compress output, you
can provide output_len=<<some int>> to any de/compress
to get ~1.5-3x performance increase as this allows single
buffer allocation.
For snappy with bytearrays, it's only a mild improvement
as we currently are able to estimate the buffer size and can
resize the resulting bytearray to the correct size.