entropython 1.1.0

A Python module for efficient calculation of Shannon byte entropy based on Rust

entropython

A Python module for efficient calculation of Shannon byte entropy based on Rust.

Installation

To install the version from pypi.org run

pip install entropython

To install the latest version directly from GitHub run

pip git+https://github.com/fkie-cad/entropython

(you need to have rust installed) or check out the repository and run

pip install .

Usage

from entropython import shannon_entropy, metric_entropy

byte_str = (
    b'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod ' 
    b'tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.'
)
print(shannon_entropy(byte_str))
print(metric_entropy(byte_str))