This package provides python bindings for the lz4 compression library by Yann Collet.

At this time the project contains bindings for the LZ4 block format and the LZ4 frame format. Patches implementing bindings for the LZ4 stream format would be readily accepted!

The package is hosted on PyPI:

$ pip install lz4
$ easy_install lz4

Full documentation is included with the project. The documentation is generated using Sphinx.

Code specific to this project is covered by the BSD 3-Clause License

• Jonathan Underwood combined the block and frame modules into a coherent single project with many fixes and cleanups including updating the block format support to use the tunable accelerated and high compression functinos
• Steve Morin wrote the original lz4 block bindings
• Christopher Jackson wrote the original lz4 frame bindings as part of the lz4tools project
• Mathew Rocklin added support for dropping the GIL to the block module, Travis testing support
• Antoine Martin added initial support for fast compression support in the block library

.. toctree::
   docs/intro.rst
   docs/install.rst
   docs/license.rst
   docs/contributors.rst