fastqrcode 1.0

Fast and robust bindings for libqrencode

fastqrcode
==========

Fast and robust Python bindings for libqrencode
(http://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/index.en.html) using Cython

There are already several Python bindings for libqrencode (qrencode, pyqrencode
and qrkit to name a few), but as of this writing (October 2013) they all suffer
from one or more of the following issues:

- Memory leaks (not freeing or improperly freeing the QRCode object returned
by libqrencode
- Crashing instead of throwing Python exceptions in case of problems
- Inability to deal with binary data containing null characters

fastqrcode was written to solve those issues.

Usage
-----

import fastqrcode as qrcode

# Basic usage:
image = qrcode.encode("Hello World")
image.save('qrcode.png')

# More options
image = qrcode.encode("Hello World",
module_size=3, # Use 3x3 pixels for each 'dot' in the QR-code
version=20, # Make at least a version 20 QR-code
ec_level=qrcode.ERROR_CORRECT_H, # High correction level
border=5) # Keep a 5 'dots' (ie: 15 pixels) border around the code


Limitations
-----------

Currently, fastqrcode always encode in binary mode, which is less efficient if
you are encoding only alphanumeric
characters.


Installation
------------

Please make sure you have the following dependencies:

- libqrencode (OSX: `brew install libqrencode` Ubuntu: `sudo apt-get install libqrencode-dev`)
- Pillow (`pip install pillow`)

You should have libqrencode in your LD path (/usr/local/lib) and qrencode.h in
your include path (/usr/local/include)

Then, install using pip:

$ pip install fastqrcode

Alternatively, you can download the source code and install manually:

$ python setup.py install


Development
-----------

If you'd like to make changes to fastqrcode.pyx, you will need to install Cython
in order to compile the pyx file to c:

$ pip install cython
$ cython fastqrcode.pyx
$ python setup.py install

If you're submitting a pull request, please make sure that your commit has the
changes for both fastqrcode.pyx and fastqrcode.c