inflate64 1.0.0

deflate64 compression/decompression library

The inflate64 is a python package to provide Deflater and Inflater class to compress and decompress with Enhanced Deflate compression algorithm.

The project is in Production/Stable status.

How to use

You can install it with pip command as usual.

pip install inflate64

You can extract compressed data by instantiating Inflater class and call inflate method.

import inflate64
decompressor = inflate64.Inflater()
extracted = decompressor.inflate(data)

You can also compress data by instantiating Deflater class and call deflate method.

import inflate64
compressor = inflate64.Deflater()
compressed = compressor.deflate(data)
compressed += compressor.flush()

License

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

Note

Please note that Enhanced Deflate algorithm is also known as DEFLATE64 ^TM that is a registered trademark of PKWARE, Inc.