BrotliCFFI

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This library contains Python CFFI bindings for the reference Brotli encoder/decoder, available here_. This allows Python software to use the Brotli compression algorithm directly from Python code.

Install from PyPI:

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$ python -m pip install brotlicffi

Install from Conda:

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$ conda install -c conda-forge brotlicffi

To use it simply, try this:

.. code-block:: python

import brotlicffi
data = brotlicffi.decompress(compressed_data)

More information can be found in the documentation_.

.. _available here: https://github.com/google/brotli .. _in the documentation: https://brotlipy.readthedocs.org

Using BrotliCFFI in Projects

The API is 100% compatible with the Brotli Python C bindings_. We recommend installing the C bindings on CPython and the CFFI bindings everywhere else (PyPy, etc)

Essentially you use requirements like this:

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install_requires=[
    "brotli; platform_python_implementation == 'CPython'",
    "brotlicffi; platform_python_implementation != 'CPython'"
]

and then import the correct Brotli library like so:

.. code-block:: python

try:
    import brotlicffi as brotli
except ImportError:
    import brotli

We provide an example project_ that shows how to use both libraries together to support Brotli with multiple Python implementations.

.. _Brotli Python C bindings: https://pypi.org/project/Brotli .. _example project: https://github.com/python-hyper/brotlipy/tree/master/example

License

The source code of BrotliCFFI is available under the MIT license. Brotli itself is made available under the Version 2.0 of the Apache Software License. See the LICENSE and libbrotli/LICENSE files for more information.

Authors

BrotliCFFI/brotlipy was authored by Cory Benfield and is currently maintained by Seth Michael Larson.