happybuf 0.1.0

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happybuf - Happy Appendable Python Buffers

An abstraction layer for multiple popular serialization formats:

• Protocol Buffers
• Cap'n Proto
• FlatBuffers

This package is an exploration of different serialization formats/libraries regarding their support of appending (chaining) multiple messages. This can be useful when storing serialized data in a binary file that is supposed to grow over time.

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While developing, those general resources for using the different backend libs with Python are useful:

• Protocol Buffers:
  • https://googleapis.dev/python/protobuf/latest/
  • https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/reference/python-generated
  • https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/tree/master/python
  • https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/pythontutorial
• Cap'n Proto:
  • https://github.com/capnproto/pycapnp
  • https://capnproto.github.io/pycapnp/
• FlatBuffers:
  • https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/flatbuffers_guide_tutorial.html -> select Python
  • https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/flatbuffers_guide_use_python.html
  • https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/flatbuffers_support.html
  • https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/blob/master/samples/sample_binary.py

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Some more Python libs I found interesting while doing research (not necessarily related to this project):

• protobuf-serialization
• serpy