minilzo 1.2

This is a python library that deals with lzo files compressed with lzop.

##A simple and sometimes naive python lzo library.

This is a python library deals with lzo files compressed with lzop. There is a python-lzo module in github, but it's for compressing strings using lzo. This module is for lzop generate file. It parses the header structures and check the checksum.

One possible usage is unpack Android(linux) kernel boot.img. And actually it's why I create this ugly module.

##Usage## You can use it as command line tools:

python minilzo.py file_to_compress

Or import it into your script

import minilzo
f = minilzo.open('compressed.lzo', 'wb')
data = #some data
f.write(data)

Open boot.img:

from minilzo import LzoFile
f = open('boot.img', 'rb')
f.seek(#calculate your offset)
LzoFile(fileobj=f, mode = 'rb')

Known issues: crc32 checksum not supported, because no such function in minilzo library filter not supported, but version number not current path name not supported mtime read but not set

TODO: check if liblzo presents. Use it if so, otherwise use builtin minilzo figure out why signature check fails like lzop does