pycircularbuffer 0.0.4

Simple implementation of circular buffer.

• License : MIT

Summary

Simple circular buffer written in python extension.

CircularBuffer will allocate requested size + 2 bytes for two sections of null terminated strings.

WARNING: current implementation doesn’t expect data with char 0, or char ‘0’.

Installation

Simply pip install pycircularbuffer, compilation from downloaded source is probably needed.

Using

from circularbuffer import CircularBuffer

buf = CircularBuffer(1024)

buf.write(b’some text’)

while len(buf) > 0:

buf.read(1)

API

Regular methods:

• clear()

• read()

• resize()

• write()

• write_available()

String methods:

• count()

• startswith()

Sequence methods:

• __contains__()

• __getitem__()

• __len__()

• __setitem__()

Magic methods:

• __repr__()

• __str__()

  Note: while string representation makes thing easier it always creates memory copy.