tinycompress 0.1.1

Library to handle sparse bytes within a virtual memory space

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A tiny library for tiny binary compression.

• Free software: BSD 2-Clause License

Overview

TinyCompress is a lightweight Python library that provides efficient data compression algorithms with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.

The library implements multiple compression methods:

• LZSSW (Lempel-Ziv-Storer-Szymanski via Words): An efficient variant of LZ77 compression algorithm that uses a sliding window approach for finding repeated data patterns.

• RLEB (Run-Length Encoding for Bytes): A specialized compression algorithm that combines run-length encoding with bit flags, particularly effective for data with repeated byte sequences.

Key features:

• Pure Python implementation for maximum portability

• Streaming interface for processing large files with minimal memory usage

• File handling utilities for direct compression/decompression of files

• Extensible base classes for implementing custom compression algorithms

• Comprehensive test suite with high code coverage

• BSD 2-Clause licensed for both commercial and open-source use

Documentation

For the full documentation, please refer to:

https://tinycompress.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Installation

From PyPI (might not be the latest version found on github):

$ pip install tinycompress

From the source code root directory:

$ pip install .

Development

To run the all the tests:

$ pip install tox
$ tox